Jim Walker

Jim Walker is an artist and writer interested in making and supporting creative, grassroots ideas and initiatives that improve Indianapolis. He and his family live Downtown and he helps with two non-profit cultural organizations: Big Car, an arts collective and gallery, and Second Story, a project for young writers. He’s the lead artist behind the Made for Each Other community art project that brings art to neighborhoods as a way to help (at least a little) improve the quality of life there.

Steve Roberts

Steve Roberts was born and raised in Noblesville, Indiana. He graduated from Earlham College several decades ago.
He and his wife have lived outside of Westfield, Indiana for thirty years. This is where they raised their four children. They also have four grandchildren, all of their first names beginning with a vowel.
He is now retired after thirty-five years in the insurance claims business. Roberts has been a member of the Writers’ Center of Indiana since 1980, back when poetry readings were held twice a month at the esteemed Alley Cat Tavern, and later down at the Slippery Noodle Inn.
He has given readings at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Bloomington, Chicago, and various infamous venues around Indianapolis. He has published nearly 400 poems in over 300 literary periodicals –
including Borderlands, BlueStem, New Laurel Review, Briar Cliff Review,
Willow Springs, Water–Stone, Comstock Review, Slant, and Blueline.
He has five published chapbooks. The two most recent –
Small Fire Speaking in the Rain and Rhubarb Desoto.
Almost Music from Between Places, from Chatterhouse Press, is his first
full length publication.