Ansie Baird was winner of the 14th annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize for her collection, In Advance of All Parting (2009). She holds degrees from Vassar College and UB, where she received her MA in English and won first prize in the University's Academy of American Poets contest. She is Poet-in-Residence and a part-time English teacher at Buffalo Seminary, where she has taught for over 25 years. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The Southern Review, The Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The South Dakota Review, The Quarterly, The Recorder, Earth's Daughters, and other journals. She is a former editor of Earth's Daughters. She has been the featured reader at the Burchfield-Penney Center, Center for Inquiry, Indigo Gallery, the UB Poetry Collection 2010 Reading at the Butler Mansion, and elsewhere.

Ann Goldsmith is the author of No One Is the Same Again, a prize-winning book of poems published by the Quarterly Review of Literature. She has a full-length book of poetry, The Spaces Between Us, forthcoming from Outrider Press. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Traffic East (2006). She was a runner-up in the 1996 Orillia International Poetry Festival; twice a finalist in the "Discovery"/The Nation national poetry competition; winner in 1984 of a WNY Writers-in-Residence Award from Just Buffalo, and one of "Five New Voices" selected in the Second Biennial Burchfield Competition in 1983. In 1985-86 she served on the poetry panel for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Goldsmith has served as WNY coordinator for ALPS, a statewide poetry-in-the-schools organization. She has been a visiting poet for Just Buffalo and the Canadian Authors' Association, and also served as a poet-in-residence for two years at the Chautauqua Institution's summer writing program.