ANARA GUARD studied writing at the Urban Gateways Young Writers Workshop of Chicago, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in fiction. She attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston. A poet and short fiction writer, she is the author of "The Sound of One Body - Stories" from Back Pages Publishers.  She resides in the Boston area and Sacramento.

Franz Wright

FRANZ WRIGHT is the author of over a dozen works of poetry and translation and received the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Walking to Martha's Vineyard.  In 2011, Back Pages Published his chapbook of alternating prose and poetry pieces entitled Kore  He is also the author of Lesson, a letterpress typeset broadside poem produced in two forms (blue and white) by Back Pages Publishers and the Quercus Press.  It was originally published in collection God's Silence.

Howard Zinn

HOWARD ZINN was an acclaimed historian, activist, and playwright. Born in Brooklyn, New York he served as a bombardier in World War II and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught at Spelman College and Boston University and authored of over twenty books including A Power Governments Cannot Suppress and the bestselling People's History of the United States. Zinn's State of the Union: Notes on an Obama Administration was the first book published by Back Pages Publishers.