More than 100 poems by Kendall Evans (pictured, left), including several collaborations with David Kopaska-Merkel, have appeared in various sf/fantasy/horror magazines and anthologies. His poems "Mission to a Quantum Asteroid" and "Rapunzel, Rapunzella" received Rhysling nominations as best long poem of the year in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Another poem, "The Keeper of the Lighthouse at Land's End," received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He is also the author of the novelette "Don Huavaca's Dia De Los Muertos," which appeared in the anthology Bare Bone 6.

David Kopaska-Merkel (right) has been editor of the genre poetry magazine Dreams and Nightmares for twenty years and is a former editor of Star*Line, the newsletter of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. In 2005 he was nominated for the group’s Grand Master award, and a number of his poems have been nominated for Rhysling Awards in previous years. David's poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, and Abyss & Apex. His poetry also has been collected in more than a dozen poetry books, including Shoggoths and The Ruined City. The recent collection Separate Destinations (D+66 Books, 2005) collects several of his collaborations with Kendall Evans, and another poem they co-wrote just appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction.

Kopaska-Merkel grew up in Charlottesville, VA, attending Albemarle High School in Albemarle County. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary and his doctoral degree in geology at the University of Kansas. He makes his living as a geologist with the state of Alabama.