Jennifer Reimer grew up in the borderlands of Southern California. She has a B.A in English from NYU (2002) and a M.F.A in Writing from the University of San Francisco (2005). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in St. Ignatian Literary Review, Commonweal, Our Stories and Denver Syntax (Forthcoming). She is the co-founder of Achiote Press. She’s currently working on a Ph.D in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
A native of the Pacific island of Guahan (Guam), Craig Perez immigrated to California in 1995. He completed his MFA at the University of San Francisco, and he is the co-founder of Achiote Press. His work has appeared in Jacket, Slope, RainTaxi, Watchword, Galatea Resurrects, Zafusy, and Elimae, among others. He blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com.