Samantha Schroeder

Visual artist: specializes in acrylic canvas paintings, animated characters, portraits, and still life drawings.Photographer: concentration on family or individual photographsPoet: vocalizes viewpoints on mental health and self awareness in poetryTheatre: as a member of the thespian society I have stage managed many plays and musicals for the Byron Civic Theatre.

Jenna Goldsmith

City of Rockford Poet Laureate Lecturer in English at Rockford University

Kweisi Gharreau

I am a self-published author. Poetry empowered me to write, meet and forgive my younger brother, Lemont’s killers.