Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press 2007) and DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books, 2011). She is a member of an experimental black poetry and performance group, the Black Took Collective, and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Chris Tysh has authored several poetry collections and completed a full screenplay based on a novel of Georges Bataille. Her latest book is Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox, 2012).