Sarah Glaz's first poetry collection, Ode to Numbers (Antrim House, 2017) was a finalist for both Next Generation Indie Book Awards and Book Excellence Awards. Sarah is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the mathematical area of Commutative Ring Theory. Her poetry, poetry translations, collaborative work with visual artists, and articles on the connections between mathematics and poetry appeared in a variety of literary and mathematical journals, edited volumes, and anthologies. Sarah serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, for which she guest-edited the special issue Poetry and Mathematics. She coedited the poetry anthology, Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (CRC Press, 2008), and as the coordinator of the poetry readings at the annual Bridges conferences, she edits the Bridges Poetry Anthologies.

Carol Dorf is fascinated with the boundaries between disciplines, particularly mathematics and poetry. She is poetry editor of Talking Writing where she writes about issues in contemporary poetry, and has edited several issues on mathematical poetry, science poetry, and technology poetry. For many years, she taught high school mathematics, and has led poetry workshops as a California-Poet-in-the-Schools, at Berkeley City College, and other art venues. She brought her loves together by introducing poetry into the mathematics classroom and by teaching poetry writing to mathematics teachers. She has three chapbooks available, Some Years Ask (Moria Press), Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press), and Given (Origami Poems Project).  Her poetry appears in Great Weather For Media, The Mom Egg, Sin Fronteras, E-ratio, About Place, Glint, Slipstream, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, and Maintenant.

    
     Website: http://talkingwriting.com/why-poets-sometimes-think-in-numbers/
     Sample poem: Ask for a Universe and What Do You Get?

Susan Gerofsky is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Environmental Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research is in embodied, multisensory, multimodal mathematics education through the arts, movement, gesture and voice. She works in curriculum studies, environmental garden-based education, the language and genres of mathematics education, and media theory. Dr. Gerofsky is academic advisor and co-founder of the UBC Orchard Garden, a student-led campus learning garden. She is active as a poet, playwright, musician and filmmaker, and also works with dance and fiber arts. You'll often find her cycling around town with a baritone horn or an accordion. Susan contributed to the award-winning book, Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (Vernon Press, 2017) and has a verse play, Keple: A Renaissance Folk Play, published in The Mathematical Intelligencer.

  
   
    Website: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-018-9818-2#citeas
    Sample poem: Seven Strands of Alphabetical Crows

David Greenslade recently retired as a grammar and writing tutor at Cardiff Metropolitan University.   He writes in Welsh and English and has taught at a number of universities.  He has also led writing workshops in prisons and other challenging environments.  David authored several collections of prose poetry. His collection Lyrical Diagrams (Shearman Books, 2012) juxtaposes diagrams with poetic-mathematical texts.  He has received British Council support for his work and is a winner (twice) of the Planet Welsh Internationalist Essay Award.   In 2019 he curated an exhibition of Welsh and Romanian Surrealist Art at the Welsh Senate. His latest publication as editor is Imagined Invited (Hafan Books, 2020) an international anthology of poetry and surrealist collage. Currently he shares his time between Wales and Romania where he continues to write, exhibit and nurture international projects.  

    Website: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/05/david-greenslade.html
    Sample poem: Infinity Manifold

Emily Grosholz is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University. She studies at the University of Chicago and Yale University. She has written eight books of poetry, including The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems (Word Galaxy Press, 2017) and written or edited 14 more philosophical books, including Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (Springer, 2016), which won the 2017 Fernando Gil International Prize for Philosophy of Science, and Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry (Springer, 2018). Her book of poems Childhood has been translated into Japanese, French, Italian, German and Bulgarian. Her collection of literary essay Reflections on Poetry and the World: Walking along the Hudson, homage to the Hudson Review, just came out from Cambridge Scholars.   
                                                                          

    Website: http://www.emilygrosholz.com/index.html
    Sample poems: The Shape of Desire 

JoAnne Growney, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she writes poems, guides poetry workshops, blogs about math-poetry connections, and enjoys activities with grandchildren.  From childhood JoAnne loved both poetry and mathematics -- but mathematical studies offered needed scholarships.  When again there became time for poetry, mathematics was one of her inspirations.   With numerous poems in math and literary journals,  JoAnne also has published several poetry collections.  Hypothesizing that everything connects, she delights in the elegant language of both mathematics and poetry and frequently applies mathematical constraints to help shape her thoughts into poems.   Her blog "Intersections --Poetry with Mathematics" offers a varied selection of poetry and commentary by poets from around the world -- and a few items of her own.

   
    Website: https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com
    Sample poem: My Dance Is Mathematics

Lisa Lajeunesse is a professor of Mathematics at Capilano University in North Vancouver. As an undergraduate, she studied mathematics and music. Before embarking on graduate studies in mathematics, she worked for ten years with Telesat Canada on the launch and control of Canada's communication satellites. At Capilano University, she has developed and taught courses on the connections between mathematics and the arts to reach out to non-science students, and to express her lifelong passion for creative writing, music and other art forms. During a sabbatical in 2016/2017 she wrote a textbook for these courses, which prompted her to attend Bridges for the first time. Since then, she has adapted popular logic puzzles to encode poetry so that the solving of each puzzle unlocks a poem. A sample of Lisa's poetry may be found at her website.