Avant-garde poet and critic Rachel Levitsky is a writer "committed to social and spiritual change." Her poems are often "highly charged, quick-to-read, funny and smart," sometimes vulnerable and bare, and always engrossing.

Before arriving in Berkeley, where she is now a graduate student in the English Department, Gillian Kidd Osborne grew up beside the Hudson River, worked in a bookstore in Paris, finished a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and taught high school English in Japan. Her poetry has appeared in the Threepenny Review.