Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street and three other full-length poetry collections: Blue Ruby, Resurrection Papers, and Practicing Amnesia. Her honors include a Rita Dove Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, and a term as Berks Poet Laureate. She is Emerita Professor of English at Kutztown University and teaches creative writing at Cedar Crest College. J. C. Todd is author of The Damages of Morning, What Space This Body, chapbooks and collaborative artist books. Her awards include the Rita Dove Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Leeway Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She facilitates poetry gatherings for the Dodge Poetry Program.