Jane Hirshfield is author of five collections of poetry. Hirshfield's awards are many and glowing: Poetry Center Book Award, Bay Area Book Award, Commonwealth Club of CA Poetry Medal, Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Work has appeared in Best American Poems, Pushcart Prize Anthology, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and others.

Walt McDonald is the author of eighteen collections of poems, including All Occasions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000); Whatever the Wind Delivers: Celebrating West Texas and the Near Southwest (1999; with archival photos selected by Janet Neugebauer from Tech's Southwest Collection), which won a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.