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JOHN MEDEIROS is a writer living in Minneapolis. His work has appeared in Water~Stone, Gulf Coast; Willow Springs; Gents, Badboys and Barbarians: An Anthology of New Gay Male Poetry; Evergreen Chronicles; Christopher Street; Chiron Review; and Writers Against War. He is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant; Gulf Coast's First Place Nonfiction Award; and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship for Emerging Artists. He is a recent graduate of Hamline University, where his memoir Self, Divided was awarded the Outstanding Creative Nonfiction Thesis of the Year, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley, Minnesota.

ANDREA JENKINS is a published poet and freelance writer. She has written for the Minneapolis Spokesman and Recorder, One Nation News, Insight News, LivingOUT Magazine and The Minneapolis Observer. Jenkins has also been the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Loft Mentor Series Fellowship, The Napa Valley Writers Conference scholarship and five Cave Canem workshops in the Twin Cities. She has performed for several years at many venues throughout the Twin Cities as well as in New York City, Chicago and Northern California. Jenkins has self-published three successful editions of a chapbook of poems called Tributaries, Poems Celebrating Black History. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Hamline University.