Lyn Lifshin has published over 130 books and chapbooks including three from Black Sparrow Press: "Cold Comfort," "Before It's Light" and "Another Woman Who Looks Like Me." Before "Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle," Lifshin published her prize winning book about the short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian, "The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian" and "Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness." Recent books include "Ballroom," "All the Poets Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead, All True, Especially The Lies," "Light At the End: The Jesus Poems," "Katrina," "Mirrors," "Persphone," "Lost In The Fog," "Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems." NYQ books published "A Girl Goes into The Woods." "For the Roses" poems after Joni Mitchell and "Hitchcock Hotel" (Danse Macabre), "Tangled as the Alphabet -- The Istanbul Poems" (NightBallet Press), "Malala," "Marilyn Poems" (Rubber Boots Press) and "Femme Eterna Eneduanna, Schererzade and Nefertiti" have been recently published. An update to Lyn Lifshin's Gale Research Autobiography is out: "Lips, Blues, Blue Lace: On The Outside." A DVD of the documentary film "Lyn Lifshin: Not Made Of Glass" has also recently been released. "Moving Through Stained Glass: the Maple Poems" and "Degas' Little Dancer" are forthcoming. See more of her work at www.lynlifshin.com.
Ashley-Renée Cribbins is an artist and illustrator currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Her style is largely influenced by comic art and animation; she strives to imbue her illustrations with a strong sense of mood and the characters she draws with expression and personality. She is also a writer of short fiction. Visit her at www.arcribbins.com.