Joy Katz is the author of two poetry collections, "The Garden Room" (2006, Tupelo Press) and "Fabulae" (2002, Southern Illinois University Press). She teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and is an editor-at-large for Pleiades.

Tony Barnstone is a professor of English at Whittier College. He is the author of several books, including "Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki," which won the John Ciardi Prize.