Kandace Brill Lombart is a literary scholar who is currently compiling the Ruth Stone Bibliography. She has been active for over two decades in promoting poets and writers in Buffalo, New York, as well as organizing and co-coordinating major international events focused on women writers.

Jennifer Burton (Tufts University) produces films with Five Sisters Productions, including Manna From Heaven, a new comedy on ageism, Old Guy, and a documentary on drag culture in Columbus, OH. Publications include Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies, co-edited with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is author of the poetry collections Dog Road Woman, recipient of the American Book Award, and Off-Season City Pipe. Her other books include Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir; and Blood Run, a verse-play. She was editor of Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, and Effigies II.