About the Author

Opal Palmer Adisa is a professor of creative writing and literature at California College of the Arts and an award-winning poet and prose writer of 11 titles, including the novel It Begins With Tears. She lives in Oakland, California. Donna Weir-Soley is a teacher, a poet, and a critic. She has been widely published in journals such as Caribbean Writer, Carrier-Pidgin, The Frontiers, Macomere, Sage and in the anthology, Moving Beyond Boundaries and was recently awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for career enhancement. She lives in Miami.