Ellen Samuels is the author of a poetry collection, Hypermobilities (Operating System, 2021), and a chapbook, December Morning (Finishing Line Press, 2002), as well as many works in disability studies. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared widely, including in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Nimrod, Brevity, Massachusetts Review, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Her awards include two Lambda Literary Awards, two Pushcart nominations, and the FineLines Prize from Mid-American Review. She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is working on a book titled Sick Time: What Chronic Life Tells Us. She lives in Monona, WI with her partner and dog.

Jenna Rindo worked for years as a pediatric RN at hospitals in Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin. She writes to better understand and appreciate the complications of the human body, mind and spirit. She is a runner and trains for races from the 5K to the full marathon. A former ESL teacher she now tutors and mentors refugee students. She believes that all forms of art involve finding the balance between what to include and what to leave out. John Ruskin said it much more eloquently: “Nothing is ever seen perfectly, but only by fragments and under various conditions of obscurity.” Her poems and essays have been published in AJN, Calyx, Rhino, Tampa Review, WI People and Ideas Magazine, Bramble, One Magazine, Verse Virtual and other journals.