Susan Platt is a freelance writer, art critic, curator and art historian based in Seattle since 1998. She was a tenured art historian with a specialty in contemporary art at the University of North Texas, Denton, for eight years. Since coming to the Northwest, she has taught primarily at the University of Washington, as well as at The Evergreen State College and Seattle Central Community College. Her most recent book is Art and Politics in the 1930’s (Midmarch Arts Press, 1999). She writes for Sculpture Magazine and as a contributing editor for Art Papers Magazine based in Atlanta.

Pancho Savery is a Professor of English, Humanities, and American Studies at Reed College, Portland, OR, teaching courses in African American and American Indian literature, modern and contemporary drama and poetry, and modern fiction since 1995. He previously taught at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. His publications include Approaches to Teaching Ellison’s Invisible Man, numerous essays, and personal poetry.