ayaz daryl Nielsen, veteran, hospice nurse, ex-roughneck (as on oil rigs) lives in Longmont, Colorado. Editor of bear creek haiku (30+ years/140+ issues) with poetry published worldwide (and deeply appreciated), he is online at bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com.
Carlos Franco-Ruiz born in 1987 in Managua, Nicaragua, is an artist who mainly works with painting. In 1988, his parents immigrated to Miami, Florida. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami in 2011. He currently lives and works in Miami, FL and Sauce, Uruguay.