Allison Carter is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press), and three chapbooks: Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press), All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions (Insert Press), and Sum Total (Eohippus Labs). Her work has otherwise been published in Conjunctions, Joyland, P-Queue, 5_Trope, Fence, Sidebrow, and other journals. Allison studied Comparative Literature at Brown University and received her MFA from CalArts. She currently lives and teaches in Los Angeles, CA.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of two books of poems, 19 Names For Our Band (Fence, 2008) and James Brown is Dead (Future Plan and Program, 2011). His art and writing projects, spanning photography, video, performance and poetry,have been exhibited and performed at MoMA/PS1, Mt. Tremper Arts, Eighth Veil and The Tank, among others. He lives in Los Angeles where he is an MFA candidate in studio art at the University of Southern California.