October 18, 2007

Shin Yu Pai is the author of Works on Paper, Sightings: Selected Works, The Love Hotel Poems, Unnecessary Roughness, Equivalence, and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. Her work is anthologized in The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry. She has completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Taipei Artist Village, and the Ragdale Foundation. Visit her website at http://shinyupai.com.

John (Maroon) Chinworth holds an MFA in poetics from Naropa University, where he was classmates with Shin Yu Pai. John received a Masters in Teaching from Seattle University and currently is a special education teacher in Bellevue. He lives with his partner Johnnie Peterson and likes to self-publish chapbooks of poetry. His latest collection, Wrongevity, is his second in a series that blasts the Bush mis-administration. John is also a part-time astrologer.