Dennis Raimondi has a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University. He also holds graduate degrees from New Jersey City University and the University of Iowa. Dennis is a former member of the Dean's Council of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has instructed courses in Transcendental Meditation as taught by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the David Lynch Foundation, www.davidlynchfoundation.org
Joy Lyle has an M. F. A. degree from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Her poems have been published in Poetry Northwest, The Sewanee Theological Review, Mid-American Review, Cutbank, Poet Magazine, and the anthology Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day.
Joy lives on a farm near Keota, Iowa with her husband Trent and teaches
poetry at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa.