Hannah Baker-Siroty has studied writing at The University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). She has worked for DoubleTake Magazine and was an editor of The Madison Review. A former emerging writer fellow at The Writers' Room of Boston her poetry has appeared in Lumina,the anthology Earshot: the First Offenders, and online at RantArt.com and stopbuyingstuffmagazine.com. She is currently working on her first collection of poems and teaches writing at Pine Manor College.

Enzo Surin is a poet, playwright, social advocate and the author of Higher Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2006), a collection of poems on urban renewal, which was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. His poems have also been featured in Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, Freshwater, and PoetryMagazine. He lives in Boston, MA, where he founded and heads the literacy initiative INKp.a.l.s, a project aimed at using poetry as a tool to increase literacy and affect social change. He is currently at work on a book-length poetry manuscript.

Hannah Larrabee received an MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire. She won several awards during her time in the program, and was a runner-up for the Indiana Review Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Virgo was published by Finishing Line Press in March of 2009. Her work will soon appear in Scarab, the first literary magazine designed for mobile media, featuring audio of poets reading their work. She currently teaches college composition and literature.