Poet and novelist Norman Macleod was born in Salem, Oregon in 1906 and grew up in Missoula, Montana, the setting of The Bitter Roots. Active in radical politics in the 1930s, he helped found the Poetry Center in New York City and was friends with William Carlos Williams. He taught at several universities, including Pembroke State College, where he founded Pembroke Magazine. He died in 1985.Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer currently living in London. Her work of creative non-fiction, Surrender, won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018.Bruce Hardy is a retired pediatric cardiologist and now teaches at the University of Montana.

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Poet and novelist Norman Macleod was born in Salem, Oregon in 1906 and grew up in Missoula, Montana, the setting of The Bitter Roots. Active in radical politics in the 1930s, he helped found the Poetry Center in New York City and was friends with William Carlos Williams. He taught at several universities, including Pembroke State College, where he founded Pembroke Magazine. He died in 1985.Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer currently living in London. Her work of creative non-fiction, Surrender, won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018.Bruce Hardy is a retired pediatric cardiologist and now teaches at the University of Montana.

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Poet and novelist Norman Macleod was born in Salem, Oregon in 1906 and grew up in Missoula, Montana, the setting of The Bitter Roots. Active in radical politics in the 1930s, he helped found the Poetry Center in New York City and was friends with William Carlos Williams. He taught at several universities, including Pembroke State College, where he founded Pembroke Magazine. He died in 1985.Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer currently living in London. Her work of creative non-fiction, Surrender, won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018.Bruce Hardy is a retired pediatric cardiologist and now teaches at the University of Montana.

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