Jefferson Carter

Jefferson Carter directs the Writing and Literature Program, and teaches developmental composition and poetry writing at Pima Community College, Downtown Campus. His seven books of poetry include Litter Box (Spork Press) and, most recently, MY KIND OF ANIMAL (Chax Press, 2010) and SENTIMENTAL BLUE (Chax Press, 2007). He has lived in Tucson, Arizona, since 1954. He has won a Tucson/Pima Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship, and his poems have appeared in such journals and e-zines as Carolina Quarterly, CrossConnect, 2River View, and Barrow Street. His chapbook Tough Love won the Riverstone Poetry Press Award.

Ruth Bavetta

Ruth Bavetta is a lifelong resident of Southern California whose poetry has been published in many journals, including Nimrod, Tar River Review, Rattle, North American Review, Spillway, Hanging Loose, Rhino, Poetry East, and Poetry New Zealand.  Her work is included in the anthologies Twelve Los Angeles Poets and Wait a Minute, I Have to Take off My Bra. She loves the light on November afternoons, the smell of the ocean, a warm back to curl against in bed. She hates pretense, fundamentalism and sauerkraut.