Carol Jennings grew up in western New York State. She attended The College of Wooster, and received her B.A., M.A., and J.D. from New York University. She resides in Washington DC, where she worked as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection for more than 30 years. Her poems have appeared in various journals including The Loch Raven Review, The New York Quarterly, Potomac Review, Chautauqua, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Broadkill Review, Medical Literary Messenger, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Gargoyle Magazine, as well as three anthologies. Her first poetry collection, The Dead Spirits at the Piano, was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2016. Her second collection, The Sustain Pedal, was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2022. She has done poetry readings at Politics and Prose Bookstore, the Chautauqua Institution, The Writer’s Center (Bethesda, MD), Café Muse venues, and various cafés and private book parties in the Washington area.
Andy Young grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her second full length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has also made four chapbooks and two kids.