Born and raised in Boston, Marci Goodman currently lives in Brooklyn and works in Queens, at Queens College, where she teaches in the English Department and coordinates a program called College Now for New York City public high school students. She has an MFA in English from UMass/Amherst and has published short stories in a handful of literary journals, including the Cimarron Review and Expresso Tilt.
Diana Blackwell is a self-taught artist in Berkeley. She works in many media, including charcoal, acrylics, papier mache, collage, block printing, monoprinting, and digital photography. Her subjects include abstractions and imaginary scenes, as well as all the traditional foci of representation: human figures and portraits, still life, landscape, and religious, especially Christian, iconography.
Blackwell's colorful, happy-looking monoprints are a regular feature at Mignonne Décor in Berkeley. Her online gallery is www.zhibit.org/diana_blackwell. She has shown work in California, Massachussetts, Missouri, and Nebraska. Her digital photography can be seen at www.flickr.com/diana_blackwell.