Christine Hume has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, where she also hosts an internet radio program called Poetry Radio. Her writing and criticism have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, and Womens Studies Quarterly. Musca Domestica, Hume's first book of poetry, was published in 2000 by Beacon Press. Her second book, Alaskaphrenia, was published in 2004 by New Issues. Her most recent book, Shot, was published in 2010 by Counterpath Press.

Educated in music by the loneliness of the pre-dawn happenstance electronics, James Marks lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with his wife and two children.