Nancy Allinson is a Maryland poet whose work has appeared in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Minimus, and other publications. She has been leading the Federal Poets as poetry workshop facilitator for several years and also serves as emcee at the Kensington Row Bookshop poetry reading series. Her poems also appear on benches in Bethesda,MD (poetry "benches" contest). She works in the area of human resources development at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Pamela Passaretta is a former trilingual International Flight Attendant, who now is the Demonstration Specialist at the Georgetown Whole Foods Market in DC, partner in AP International Realty in DC and founder & former host of open/free poetry workshop, Poets on The Fringe, at Guy Mason Center, Glover Park, every Wednesday night. Her work appears in Federal Poet, Wednesdays at Curley's, Beyond the Fence, and online in www.stamfordwrites.org.