Orchid Tierney is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and scholar, now living in Gambier, Ohio. She is the author of a year of misreading the wildcats (Operating System, 2019) and Earsay (TrollThread 2016), and chapbooks my Beatrice (above/ground press, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX 2019), blue doors (Belladonna* Press), Gallipoli Diaries (GaussPDF 2017), the world in small parts (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and Brachiation (Gumtree, 2012). She is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. www.orchidtierney.com. 

Sandra Louise Dyas is a visual artist and published author living in Iowa City. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1998 and teaches at Cornell College. Her creative practice is interconnected by a sense of place, both physical and emotional. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a co-founder of Homegrown Stories, an online video-art project.