Christopher Bernard is an award-winning poet, novelist and essayist, and a co-editor (with Ho Lin, Steven Hill, and Jonah Raskin) as well as the original founder of Caveat Lector. His third collection of poems The Socialist’s Garden of Verses won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named one of “The Top Indie Books of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews. He is also recipient of an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. His novels include A Spy in the Ruins (“one of the best American novels since Thomas Pynchon and William Gass,” Miguel de Cervantes–award winning novelist Juan Goytisolo), Voyage to a Phantom City (“an enormous achievement,” award-winning translator Peter Bush), and Meditations on Love and Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. (“puts one in mind of Ulysses as much as Naked Lunch,” award-winning poet Ernest Hilbert). His most recent books are the middle-grade stories, the first in the “Otherwise” series, – If You Ride A Crooked Trolley... and The Judgment Of Biestia, which won an Independent Press Award in Preteen Fiction in 2025.

Steven Hill is a Caveat Lector principal and contributing writer. He is a journalist and the author of seven books of political non-fiction. His essays, articles, and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, NPR, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now, and many others. He is the chief editor and contributor to the online publication DemocracySOS. He has published short fiction and poems in a number of publications, including the Columbia Journal, Minnesota Review, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Struggle, Prophetic Voices, and the anthologies Sparkle and Blink, Grasp the Rainbow, and Poets for a Livable Planet. His plays have been produced in New York City (Off Off Broadway), Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. His website can be found at www.Steven-Hill.com.

Ho Lin is the co-editor of Caveat Lector. He is a writer and musician who resides in San Francisco. His work has appeared in Foreword Reviews, The New York Journal of Books, Your Impossible Voice and The Adirondack Review. His books include China Girl and Other Stories and Bond Movies: A Retrospective. More of his work is featured on www.holinauthor.com.

Jonah Raskin is a co-editor of Caveat Lector, a retired professor of communication, and author of eight poetry chapbooks, including The Thief of Yellow Roses (Regent Press, 2023); American Scream, a study of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl and the birth of the Beat Generation; and other books. He grew up reading the poetry of Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg; these days, he’s likely to be reading Emily Dickinson, Anna Akhmatova, and Rainer Maria Rilke.