Toi Derricotte is an American poet and recently retired from her post at University of Pittsburgh where she taught writing. Toi won a 2012 Pen Award for Poetry and is the co-founder with Cornelius Eady of Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets.

Naomi Edwards holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Pittsburgh.

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