Judy Kahn received her BA and MA in English from Louisiana State University before beginning her long teaching career in the LSU English department. She retired in 2005 and continues to play an active role in the LSU literary community.Nolde Alexius has served on the faculty of the LSU English department since 1999. Her fiction has been published in The Southern Review, Phoebe, and So To Speak. She holds an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and a BA in English and Drama from Randolph-Macon College.