is a visual artist, singer-songsmith, guitarist, harmonica player, and lyricist-poet.  Born in Asturias, North Spain, she moved to London in 2000.  In 2005 she co-formed the London based alternative rock band Rockatron, which dissolved in 2009.  Since then, she has been on the road as a solo troubadour, also performing with various musicians, artists, and poets, most recently accompanying and being accompanied by Michael Horovitz.

earned a doctorate in English Literature, and an M.A. in Humanities from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she studied poetry with Robert Creeley, Irving Feldman, and John Logan.  She is an alumnus of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.  At Lesley University, she teaches courses in English Composition, Creative Writing, Literature, and Play Production: Shakespeare.  She has recently been published in: Earth’s Daughters, The Lyre, Womb Poetry, There: Rewriting the Landscape, Blackbox Gallery, Facets, Quadrangle, and 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry.  Presently, she is working on an Oxfordian edition of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.

a half-breed Indian, he was born and raised in northern Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe.  He is a graduate of Brown University where he also earned a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing.  From 1984-97, he taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota and since 1999 has been a Professor of English at Minnesota State University, Marshall.  He was a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association.  His poetry collections include The Indian Cheap Wine Seance (1974); Fire Water World (1989), winner of the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University; Among the Dog Eaters (1992); Blood Thirsty Savages (1994); Vortex of Indian Fevers (1995); Ceremonies of the Damned (1997); Ancient Acid Flashes Back (2000); Bone & Juice (2001); Evil Corn (2004); Logorrhea (2006); and Savage Sunsets (2012).  His writing awards are myriad.

is an American poet who is a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of Chiron Review.  He taught at CSU, Long Beach from 1965 to 2007.  He was a friend of Charles Bukowski, whom he first met in 1970 and wrote a memoir of that friendship, Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, published in 1995.  His first chapbook, Sunset Beach, was published in 1967.  Since then, he has authored over 150 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 4,000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews.  In 2013: Deep Meanings, a collection of new poems from Presa Pressa; a novella trilogy from Spout Hill Press, The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen: Come Back, Bear, and Last Tango in Long Beach.  His writings are archived by the Special Collections of the CSULB library.