about the editors

SANDRA KASTURI is a writer, editor, book reviewer and the co-publisher of ChiZine Publications. She has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Animal Bridegroom (2007), and Come Late to the Love of Birds (2012), both from Tightrope Books. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire; CV2; On Spec; Taddle Creek; various Tesseracts anthologies, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology; Northern Frights 4; Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks; Shadows & Tall Trees; Evolve; Evolve 2; and Chilling Tales. Sandra is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop and also runs the imprint Kelp Queen Press.

HALLI VILLEGAS is a writer, editor, and the publisher of Tightrope Books. She has published two books of poetry: Red Promises (Guernica Editions, 2001) and In the Silence Absence Makes (Guernica Editions, 2004). The Hair Wreath, a collection of ghost stories, was published in 2010 by ChiZine Publications.