Ruth Ellen Kocher's most recent books are Third Voice, Ending in Planes, Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun, and domina Un/blued. She teaches poetry, poetics, and literature at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Dawn Lundy Martin, PhD, is professor in the English department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering; DISCIPLINE; Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life; and GOOD STOCK, STRANGE BLOOD, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Duriel E. Harris is the author of the solo play Thingification and three books of poetry, including Drag, Amnesiac, and the prize winning No Dictionary of a Living Tongue. Editor of Obsidian and co-founder of the Black Took Collective, she is an associate professor of English at ISU in Normal, IL.