Carolyn Dunn (Creek/Seminole/Cherokee/Choctaw), also of French Creole and Cajun descent, is a wife, mother, daughter, journalist, teacher, poet, fiction writer and catechist born in Southern California. She is the author of the forthcoming volume of poetry Outfoxing Coyote (That Painted Horse Press) and her work has appeared in the anthologies The Colour of Resistance and Reinventing the Enemy's Language. She has taught at Humboldt State University, Four Winds Indian School in Chico, California, and Cal Poly Pomona. A member of the Mankillers, an all women Northern style drum group whose two CDs (All Women's Northern Drum and Comin' to Getcha!) are available on Without Rez records.

Carol Comfort (Cherokee/Choctaw), also of German and Irish descent, is the mother of three children, a teacher, writer, and social activist. She is particularly devoted to promoting equality for individuals with disabilities and differences. She is the author of Breaking Boundaries, a multicultural textbook for teaching developmental writing at the university level. Carol is both the Director of the College Reading Skills program and Lecturer in the department of English and Foreign Languages at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.