Sam Magavern co-directs the Partnership for the Public Good and teaches at the University at Buffalo School of Law and the Cornell University ILR School. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, the Paris Review, and the Antioch Review. He has published a book of poetry, Noah’s Ark, with BlazeVox Books, and is featured in Four Buffalo Poets from Outriders Poetry Project. He has also written a non-fiction book, Primo Levi's Universe, a novel, Ooh La La, a comic book, The Alphabet Orchard, and a movie, The Last Word.
David Landrey was educated at Hobart College and the University at Buffalo and for 35 years before his retirement in 2000 taught American literature at SUNY Buffalo State. He also spent three years in Ankara, Turkey, two years as a visiting Fulbright Fellow at Hacettepe University. Landrey has co-edited two books by Joel Oppenheimer, The Ecology of the Soul (with Dennis Maloney) and Drawing from Life (with Robert Bertholf). His own poetic output consists chiefly of three interrelated, open-ended sequences, Consciousness Suite, Dancing in the Dark, and Divorce Poems and Dinner Table Scenes, portions of which have been published in the chap-books Intermezzi to Divorce Poems and Dinner Table Scenes (Jensen/Daniels, 2001). A number of his shorter works have appeared in journals including Credences, Peasant Tavern, Philosophy Forum and Talisman.