Chris Tysh is a poet, editor and educator, whose latest publications are 26 Tears, co-authored with George Tysh (BlazeVOX, 2022),  Derrida’s In/Voice (BlazeVOX 2020) and Hotel des Archives: A Trilogy (Station Hill Press, 2018).   
She holds fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation, as well as a Murray Jackson Creative Scholar in the Arts Award from Wayne State University where she teaches writing.  She is the poetry editor of Three Fold, an independent arts quarterly, based in Detroit: https://threefoldpress.org/current (https://threefoldpress.org/current)
. George Tysh, in 1964, was a founding member of the Detroit Artists Workshop, and from 1980 to 1991 he coordinated LINES: New Writing at The Detroit Institute of Arts.  He has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation, and an Arts Achievement Award from Wayne State University.  His most recent books include A Thousand Words and Others (2020), and 26 Tears (co-authored with Chris Tysh in 2022), both from BlazeVOX.

BARBARA HENNING is the author of five novels and eight collections of poetry, most recently a hybrid, novelized story of her mother’s life, Ferne, a Detroit Story (named a 2023 Notable Book by the Library of Michigan, published bySpuyten Duyvil 2022) and a collection of poems, Digigram (United Artists Books 2020),.  She is also the editor of Prompt Book: Experiments for Writing Poetry and Fiction (SD 2021). She has taught for Naropa University and Long Island University where she is Professor Emerita.  A native Detroiter, she presently lives in Brooklyn and teaches for writers.com. Readings of her work are on Penn Sound and other information at barbarahenning.com