Courtney Seymour is a librarian, research/persuasion instructor at Southern New Hampshire University, domestic violence advocate, mother, and New England transplant. Her poetry appears in Whispered Words: A Writer Shed Press Poetry Project, TPT Magazine, and The Elevation Review. It is forthcoming in a slam anthology from Kinsman Avenue Publishing. Follow her Instagram @b_irth.stories.

Albert John Belmont is a contemporary artist based in New Hampshire. Working since the mid-'90s, his art focuses on the deconstruction of subjects to convey form and feeling through simplicity. His work has most recently been exhibited in New York, Boston, and throughout New England. His work can be found on Instagram @belmont_aj.