Maggie Estep grew up moving throughout the US and France with her nomadic horse trainer parents. She attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Co. and received a B.A. in Literature from The State University of New York. Before publishing her first novel, Maggie worked as a horse groom, a go-go dancer, a dishwasher, a nurse's aide, and a box factory worker.
Yahia Lababidi, born 1973, is an internationally published writer of Egyptian - Lebanese origin. His first book, Signposts to Elsewhere, out December 2006, has already received generous reviews from reputable US poets; for more info, please his website sun-rising-poetry.com.
