Nicholas Leaskou is from San Francisco and received his MFA from USF in 2009. He co-owns Urban Pastoral Gardens and co-hosts Poet as Radio. His poems and reviews have appeared in Vallum, Switchback, Midway, Boog City, and Fourteen Hills.

Jay Thomas makes a living in San Francisco reading poetry and co-hosting Poet as Radio on San Francisco Community Radio (savekusf.org). On most weekdays, however, he pursues his lifelong passion of corporate data warehouse engineering. He received his MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco in 2007.

Delia Tramontina is originally from Flushing, NY. She received her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in 2001. Her poetry has appeared in Ur-Vox, Bombay Gin, Spore and Tinfish. Her review of Sarah Rosenthal’s Manhatten appeared in Galatea Resurrects in 2010. More recently, her poetry has been included in Hamilton Stone Review, Sugar Mule, Sawbuck and Lyrotica: An Anthology of Erotic Poetry and Prose. She co-hosts Poet As Radio, a weekly show on writing and poetry, streaming online on KUSF in Exile/San Francisco Community Radio. Delia is currently living and working in San Francisco.