Christopher McCann graduated in 1995 from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and American Studies. There he received the Ellsworth Award for excellence in writing and received commendations for his work in teaching writing. Over the last ten years, he has written professionally as the head of marketing for a children's book publisher, the lead documentation specialist for a multi-million-dollar travel company, and an associate editor for the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. In a year of volunteer service with the AmeriCorps program, he taught creative writing workshops and mentored students in expository writing. In addition, he edited and produced an anthology of children's poetry; won a national essay competition sponsored by AmeriCorps; and published essays and short stories in many journals, such as The Spider's Web, The Quarterly, and Salt Hill. Sarah Katherine McCann received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University (1998) in the Department of English. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop granted her a full fellowship in poetry to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree (2001). She read original poetry and lectured as a Featured Poet at the 2000 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. The Fulbright Foundation awarded her a Scholarship in 2001 to pursue her writing and translation career in Athens, Greece. She has edited technical science articles, website content for the Princeton University Program in Hellenic Studies, as well as essays from the University of Iowa Accounting Department. She currently teaches writing workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University and continues to write and translate. Her work has been published in many journals including MARGIE, New Voices (ed. Heather McHugh), South Dakota Review, Paralos, and Hangin' Loose. She has received many honors including being selected as a finalist in the Pleiades Poetry Contest (judge Robert Pinsky, 2001) and winning the Bain-Swiggett Memorial Poetry Prize (1998), the Ward Prize for creative writing (1997), and the e. e. cummings Award from the Academy of American Poets (1996, 1997).