Dan Bellm is a writer, editor, and translator. His first book of poetry, ONE HAND ON THE WHEEL, launched the California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press, and his second, BURIED TREASURE (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999), won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Best American Spiritual Writing, and WORD OF MOUTH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY AMERICAN POETRY. He is also a widely published translator of poetry and fiction from Spanish. He co-edited THE PLACE THAT INHABITS US: POEMS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY WATERSHED (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). His third book, PRACTICE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008) won a 2009 California Book Award and was named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has been awarded poetry residencies at Yaddo and Dorset Colony House, as well as an Artist's Fellowship in Literature from the California Arts Council.

Patrick Fraley has created voices for over four thousand characters, placing him among the top ten performers of all time to be cast in animated programs. He holds an MFA in acting from Cornell University and is the author of the only character-voice curriculum ever to be accredited at the university level.