Simon Pettet, as well as the recent author of Hearth and As A Bee, is the author of More Winnowed Fragments among other poetry collections. Black Sparrow published his Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler in 1999. He is also the author of Talking Pictures and Conversations About Everything with the photographer Rudy Burckhardt. British by birth, he is a long-time resident of the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

Morgan Vo was born in Norfolk, Virginia, to a Vietnamese father and an American mother. He moved to NY to attend the Cooper Union, where he studied in performance and design. Under the New Pinky imprint, www.newpinky.org, he publishes small-edition zines, broadsides and other poetic projects. He lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn.