Peter Albert retired from a thirty-year city planning career to pursue such adventures as teaching at UC Berkeley, tutoring at the 826 Valencia after-school writers’ program, lifeguarding for the YMCA, and playing with his grandchildren. His writing has been published in The Mighty Pluck, the MFK Fisher “Last House Writing Contest,” the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Eureka Times-Standard. He and his wife live in San Francisco.
Michael Bérubé has taught literature at Penn State University since 2001, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for twelve years before that. His best-known work to date is Life as We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child, which was a New York Times notable book of the year for 1996 and was selected by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio as one of the best books of year (on a list of seven). He has written creative nonfiction for many years, various works of literary criticism and theory, and one two-act play.
Jim Bishop published a collection of early work (Mother Tongue, Contraband Press, 1975) and a later CD of selected work (Vox Audio, 2007). His poetry appears in several little journals and anthologies, including: The Sun, Café Review, Contraband, Maine Times, Onan, Marshroots, Moth, Tolstoy Studies Review, Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader, and French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets. He edited and wrote the introduction for Hearts in Suspension (University of Maine Press, 2016), a hybrid fiction/nonfiction collection, including essays by Stephen King and several classmates from his undergraduate years. Bishop taught as an instructor of English at UMaine, Orono (1966-71). He later conducted poetry workshops in prisons and mental health centers in Maine and has taught as a Poet in Schools (K–12) in several public schools through programs sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. He returned to the University of Maine in the ’80s, where he served as a lecturer in English and shepherded the creation of a Franco-American Studies program. He is retired and lives with his wife Joanna Young and their golden retriever, Moxie, in Searsport, Maine.
Bill Charette grew up in a postwar blue collar family in central Massachusetts. The father of three, with four grandchildren, he retired from a 43 year career in television in 2011. He belongs to the Truro Memoir Group on Cape Cod and is an avid bicyclist and pickleball player. He is currently working on his memoir, From French Hill to the French Chef (working title).
Samara Cole Doyon is a poet and award-winning children’s book author with Haitian roots, living on unceded Wabanaki / Abenaki territory. She earned both a Lupine Award and an International Literacy Association Award for her debut picture book, Magnificent Homespun Brown. Her second book, Magic Like That, received a starred review from Kirkus and made the Bookstagang Best Picture Books of 2021 list.
Cynthia Graae lives in New York City and Hiram, Maine. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry translations, and reviews have appeared, or soon will, in The Common, HuffPost, Barren Magazine, Exsolutas Press, Maine Character Energy (Rogue Owl Press), North Dakota Quarterly, Mythic Picnic (Swallow Publishing), Griffel, Canadian Women’s Studies, Deep Overstock, Rubbertop Review, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Bat City Review, 10x10 Flash, Persimmon Tree, Garfield Lake Review, Alternate Route, Kinder Link, Maine Public, The LA Review, Rattle, Exchanges, and other literary journals.
Laurie Meunier Graves recently joined the editorial board of Résonance as Creative Non-Fiction Editor. Laurie writes essays and fiction from her home in the Maine hinterlands. For seven years, she and her husband, Clif, published and edited Wolf Moon Journal: A Maine Magazine of Art and Opinion. She has a blog called Notes from the Hinterland, featuring posts about nature, rural life, books, food, and people. She is the author of Maya and the Book of Everything, Library Lost, Out of Time, Of Time and Magic, and The Dog Angel.
Christine Jones lives in Orleans, MA, and is the author of Now Calls Me Daughter (Nixes Mate Review, 2022) and Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and co-editor of the anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Books, 2020). She’s the associate editor of Lily Poetry Review and co-founder of the Lily on the Cove Manuscript Clinic and Retreat. Her poetry can be found in numerous anthologies and journals in print and online. Her mother, Rachel Lise Cote, was born in 1939 in Asbestos, Canada, the thirteenth of fourteen children.
A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and a former college instructor, Patrick Lacroix currently serves as the director of the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes in Fort Kent, Maine. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith and "Tout nous serait possible": Une histoire politique des Franco-Américains, 1874-1945, both published in 2021. He has also penned peer-reviewed research articles on little-known aspects of Franco-American history. He has a special interest in Franco-American experiences outside of large manufacturing cities.
Chris Monier is an assistant professor of French and English at Nicholls State University, in the Bayou Region of southeast Louisiana. He has written on modern poetry and on world literature, and he has published translations of several francophone writers.
Paul Paré was raised bilingually in Maine, with high school and college in French-language institutions in Québec. His career as a reporter and features writer for a daily newspaper in Lewiston, Maine, led him to produce and host French-language radio and tv shows for Public Television in Maine and New Hampshire, winning a regional Emmy in 1980 for an educational series for NH Public Television. Paul has published a one-act play, several poems and essays, and three novels, the latest being The Obituary Girl, published in April of this year by Wall Street Press in New York City.
John Perrault is author of Jefferson’s Dream, Here Comes the Old Man Now, Ballad of Louis Wagner, and most recently a chapbook, Season of Shagginess. A Pushcart Nominee, John has published in Blue Unicorn, Christian Science Monitor, Commonweal, Comstock Review, Constellations, Poet Lore and elsewhere. He has also recorded nine albums of original songs and ballads. John tried growing up in Biddeford, Maine—still trying in NH. He is a former Portsmouth, NH poet laureate. www.johnperrault.com
Born into a French-speaking parish in Manchester, NH, John Pouliot experienced Vatican II, French-Canadian culture in crisis and the political tumult of the 1960s. His songs and poems examine, express and share my heritage. He holds a BA in psychology and a master’s degree in Catholic ministry. He is married with two grown sons, is retired after forty years in IT and lives in New England. His children’s books and poetry can be found on Amazon.
In Spring 2025, Brad Richard's fifth book, Turned Earth, will be published by Louisiana State University Press, and an updated edition of his award-winning second book, Motion Studies, will be issued by The Word Works, with new poems and a foreword by Skye Jackson. Richard currently teaches at Tulane University and is on the faculty of the Kenyon Review writing workshops. He lives in New Orleans.
Steven Riel is the author of two full-length collections of poetry (Edgemere and Fellow Odd Fellow), as well as three chapbooks, the most recent being Postcard from P-town, which was published as runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in several anthologies and numerous periodicals. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College. www.stevenrielwriter.com
Megan St. Marie is the president of Modern Memoirs, Inc., a private publishing company based in Amherst, Massachusetts that specializes in memoirs and family histories. A graduate of Smith College and Simmons University, she is a seventh-generation Vermonter of Franco-American and Irish descent. The mother of seven children in a multiracial, foster-adoptive, queer, blended family, Megan is also a children’s book author, reviewer, and scholar publishing under the name Megan Dowd Lambert. Learn more about Megan’s business at www.modernmemoirs.com and about her career in children’s literature at www.megandowdlambert.com.
Born in France, Jean-Mark Sens has lived in the American South for over twenty-five years. He studied for Priesthood at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. He currently lives in South Carolina near Clemson. His work has been published in the USA, England, and Canada, and he has three collections of poetry: Appetite (2004), Angels & Visitors (2022), and Bric-à-brac-adabra (2022).
Jeri Theriault’s recent awards include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Monson Arts Fellowship, and the 2022 NORward Prize (New Ohio Review). Her poems and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Atlanta Review, The Ashville Poetry Review, Plume, and many other publications. Her recent collections are Self-Portrait as Homestead; Radost, My Red; and (M)other. She is the editor of WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic. Jeri lives in South Portland, Maine. https://www.jeritheriault.com/
David Vermette is an author and an independent researcher. He is the author of the book A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans (Montreal, Baraka Books, 2018) and the blog French North America. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian and Time, and he has authored articles and reviews published by Histoire sociale/Social History, Résonance, and Le Forum (University of Maine). He wrote a chapter in the book French All Around Us (New York, CALEC-TBR, 2022), and also contributed to Franco-Amérique: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée (Quebec, Septentrion, 2017). He is a frequent speaker on the topic of Franco-American history.
Erica Vermette is a Boston-area multi-disciplinary artist and writer of Filipino and Franco-American heritage. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Their work has been featured in the dual show CROSSROADS, as well as various other regional shows.
Joan Vermette has spent the last 30 years creating groundbreaking digital customer experiences for Fortune 500 companies, and in her spare time exploring and advocating for her Franco-American heritage. These days, she’s focused on writing a historical novel about a 19th-century Acadian schoolteacher, and renovating 25 acres in Southern Maine using regenerative agriculture principles and practices.