Alvin Lu was born and lives in San Francisco. He attended Brown University, where he received an MFA in writing, and has worked as a journalist, a salaryman in Tokyo, and a publisher of manga. He is the author of a novel The Hell Screens, and has been at work on a...
Susan Carlson lives and works in southeastern Michigan. After years of solitary writing, she has recently begun working intently with other poets, bringing her own work into the open. This is her first publication.
Gabrielle Lessans originates from Baltimore but exists now in Colorado, where she writes poetry, teaches yoga, dances in high altitude and attends grad school at Naropa, getting her MFA.