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Harry Humes is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Butterfly Effect, a National Poetry Series selection, published by Milkweed Editions in 1999; August Evening with Trumpet, and Underground Singing, winner of the inaugural Keystone Chapbook Award, an annual competition for Pennsylvania poets. Humes is the recipient of numerous awards, including several grants from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship.

Tenaya Darlington's first book, Madame Deluxe , a collection of poetry inspired by drag queens, won the National Poetry Series and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer’s Award. Her novel Maybe Baby, the story of a young couple trying to raise a gender-neutral child, was released in 2004.