George Witte is the author of two books, Deniability (2009) and The Apparitioners (2005), both available from Orchises Press. New work has appeared or will be published in a range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review. The editor in chief of St. Martin's Press, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Tina Kelley is the author of The Gospel of Galore (2003), which won the Washington State Book Award, and has completed a new manuscript of poems which is seeking a publisher. Her poems have appeared widely, including in Best American Poetry 2009, and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR program The Writer's Almanac. After many years as a New York Times reporter, she recently joined the staff of Covenant House.