Laurie King Billman is a poet and essayist. Her written work draws on her life experiences with diverse people and places, as a licensed professional counselor in schools, group homes, and on Native reservations. She’s traveled extensively, from Alaska to Peru, from New Mexico to Kenya. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including McGuffin, Forge, and San Pedro River Review. Originally from Colorado, she now lives in North Carolina.

David Rosenthal is a public school teacher in Berkeley, California. His poems and translations have appeared in Rattle, HAD, Rust & Moth, Birmingham Poetry Review, Eclectica Magazine, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Measure, and many other journals. He has been a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Finalist and a Pushcart Prize Nominee. His collection, The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things, was published by White Violet Press (Kelsay Books).