Raised in New Orleans, Nicole Cooley is also the author of the poetry collections Resurrection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets,The Afflicted Girls, and Milk Dress. She directs the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College-The City University of New York.

Raised in New Orleans, Nicole Cooley is also the author of the poetry collections Resurrection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets,The Afflicted Girls, and Milk Dress. She directs the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College-The City University of New York.

Philip Gould is a freelance documentary/architecture photographer born in Massachusetts and raised in California’s Bay Area who has made Louisiana his home and favorite subject since 1974. His photographs have been published in over a dozen books as well as periodicals from around the world.