Mary Lee Allen is Secretary for the Center for Palladian Studies in America. She holds a Master of Humanities degree from the University of Richmond and an MA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University and is retired from the Assistant Directorship of Gunston Hall, a historic house museum. She studies poetry writing.  

Charlotte Hilary Matthews is the author of two published chapbooks, A Kind of Devotion, (Palanquin Press, 2004) and Biding Time (Half Moon Bay Press, 2005). Her poems have recently appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Tar River Poetry, Sou’wester, The Mississippi Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Meridian, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, and many others. She lives in Crozet, Virginia.