Kim Chinquee is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press) and Pretty (White Pine Press). She lives in Buffalo, New York.
Becca Deysach writes from Portland, Oregon, where she always rides with her bike light on. She faciliates writing workshops and retreats through Prescott College and Ibex Studios: Adventures in Creative Writing (http://www.ibexstudios.com/), and her work has appeared in a range of magazines and literary journals. She is hard at work on a memoir about the evolution of human consciouness.
Alison Hicks is the author of a novella, Love: A Story of Images (2004) and a chapbook of poems, Falling Dreams (2006). She has held fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Pearl, The Ledge, Eclipse, and Main Street Rag. She leads community-based writing workshops under the name Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (http://www.philawordshop.com/). She is the editor of the anthology Prompted, forthcoming in May 2010 from PS Books.
Jessica Powers is the author of The Confessional (Knopf, 2007), a novel that explores racial tension and school violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently working on a memoir about her encounters with healers in South Africa. Her essays can be read regularly at her blog, http://www.jlpowers.net/.
Dao Strom was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in the foothills of northern California. She is the author of The Gentle Order of Girls & Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof, two works of fiction. She is also a writer of songs with two albums, Everything That Blooms Wrecks Me and Send Me Home. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship, among other awards. She currently lives in Portland, OR with her husband and 11-year-old son. She is at work on a third book and a song-cycle, both having to do with themes of exodus, migration, war, myth, and Vietnam. (More at: requiemforthemigration.wordpress.com and daostrom.com)
