Changming Yuan, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China and currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan. Since mid-2005, Changming's poetry has appeared in 849 literary publications across 29 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine and Threepenny Review. Visit Poetry Pacific at poetrypacific.blogspot.ca.
Harmony Hodges is a self taught artist who lives in Portland Oregon. She enjoys anything creative, including writing, acrylic painting, mixed media collage, and designing assemblage boxes. She describes herself as having an "obsession with surface ornamentation", and is never far from a hot glue gun. She loves to put texture in her paintings and finds that a salvaged piece of old wood with all of its imperfections makes a terrific canvas.