Suzanne Roberts' poetry books include Shameless (2007), Nothing to You (2008), Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011), and Plotting Temporality (forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press, 2012). Her memoir, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, is forthcoming from the University of Nebrasks Press in 2012. She currently teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California and for the low residency MFA Creative Writing program at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. For more information, please visit her website at www.suzanneroberts.org
Martha Lavoué, a Californian transplanted to France a lifetime ago, had her first personal art exhibit in kindergarten and continued doing artwork in school. She then went underground for about 50 years. Recently, she has been published several times on-line, participates in local art exhibits south of Paris, and is "art director" for her local chorus "André Sala".