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MARION BOYER has published two poetry chapbooks and a full length poetry collection. Her poetry book, “The Clock of the Long Now” (2009), published by Mayapple Press, was nominated for the Pushcart Award and the Lenore Marshall Award. Grayson Books awarded her chapbook "Composing the Rain” first place in their 2014 chapbook competition. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, “Green”, in 2003. She has won various poetry awards including first place in the 2008 international poetry competition sponsored by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her poetry most recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review and The Tishman Review. Her poems have been published in numerous literary journals including Folio, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, and The Midwest Quarterly. She is a professor emeritus of Communication courses at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan, and moved recently to an eastern suburb of Cleveland.

JOSH BYER is an artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. His clients & collaborators include 20th Century Fox, Armada Records, Armin van Buuren, Best Buy, Brightlight Pictures, The Canadian University Press, CBC, Gutter, ill.Gates, Interscope, Keystone Entertainment, Laidback Luke, McClelland & Stewart, MTV, NBC, New Line Cinema, Nissan, The Ottawa Citizen, R3HAB, Simon Fraser University, Southam News, Sony Entertainment, Spinnin' Records, Staples, SyFy, Trevor Guthrie, USC, Victory Square Publications, and The Yale Record. A Juno and Journey Prize nominee, Josh is also a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts. His work has won awards from the Montreal World Film Festival, the Northwestern Film Festival, the LEOs, and Kodak Canada. In the summer of 2015, Josh was awarded his first Gold record from Sony Canada. Featured in hundreds of publications, Byer's artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver alongside Picasso, Dali, Matisse, and the Group of Seven. Licensed by international manufacturers such as Trademark Global, The Metaverse Corporation, and Chamton Pty.