BRASSWAX lives in Seattle and writes, performs, records, and exhibits around the Pacific Northwest.
JASON KIRK came up in and around Detroit. He earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan and is an award-winning editor of more than 200 fiction and nonfiction books, as well as the composer of "The Mirror of Simple Souls" (an opera collaboration with Canadian poet Anne Carson) and the author of several chapbooks and almost 100 published poems.