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Donald Levin is the author of two poetry books, New Year's Tangerine (Pudding House, 2007), and In Praise of Old Photographs (Little Poem Press, 2005); a novel, The House of Grins (Sewickley Press, 1992); and poetry and fiction published in numerous print and electronic journals including Poetry Midwest, Review Americana, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tryst, Red Rock Review, and Rock Salt Plum Poetry Review, among many others.

His poem, "Sestina: The Cleaners," won the grand prize for poetry in the 2005 Detroit Metro Times Summer Poetry and Fiction Contest; his story, “Midnight at the Oasis,” won the 1998 Metro Times contest for fiction. He is a professor and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan, and lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

Geneva Kachman is the author of three poetry collections:  Pink Is What Comes After Punk, The View From Comerica Park (A Poetry Map of Southeastern Michigan), and Traveling Menstrual Show.  In 2000, in collaboration with filmmaker Molly Strange, she launched the Menstrual Monday holiday, which "falls, er, spills the Monday before Mother's Day... because menstruation comes before motherhood, and usually long after it too."  Come to her reading in July, and receive a free Menstrual Monday party favor – a MOLTwheel or U.F.O. (Uterine Flying Object).  www.moltx.org