Autumn Konopka, born and raised in the Philadelphia area, has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University and a B.A. in English writing and communications from the University of Pittsburgh. Autumn has published work in several journals, and she is deeply interested in the relationship between the arts and socioeconomic class. Autumn has hosted the Mad Poets monthly reading series in Bryn Mawr, PA, for about five years and has read her poetry at World Café Live and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

 Lorraine Henrie Lins is a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate and the author of four books of poetry. She serves as the Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet and has had her work appear in numerous publications. Born and raised in the suburbs of Central New Jersey, the self-professed Jersey Girl now resides outside of Philadelphia with her family and several dogs where she has learned to pump her own gas.

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