Sheryl L. Nelms is from Marysville, Kansas. She graduated from South Dakota State University in Family Relations and Child Development. She has had over 5,000 articles, stories and poems published, including fourteen individual collections of her poems. She is the fiction/nonfiction editor of THE PEN WOMAN MAGAZINE, the National League of American Pen Women publication and a recent Pushcart Prize nominee.
Diana Blackwell is a self-taught artist in Berkeley, California. She works in charcoal, acrylics, collage, block printing, and monoprinting. She belongs to the East Bay Figure Painters. Her work is a regular feature at Mignonne Décor in Berkeley. She has shown work all over the Bay Area and illustrated books and stories. Her online gallery is www.zhibit.org/diana_blackwell.