J.C. Elkin is a poet, memoirist, and fiction writer whose work appears in such publications as Empirical, Kansas City Voices, and Kestrel, and won awards with Poetry Matters, The New Hampshire Poetry Society, and The Maryland Writers' Association. J.C. Elkin is founder of The Broadneck Writers' Workshop, www.broadneckwritersworkshop.com, she lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
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.