Emily Smith is the creator of Sparkbright magazine. A second-year university student in the south of England, her work has appeared in various online and in-print magazines, most recently in Snakeskin magazine (online) and in an anthology published by Forward Press. Her site is increasingly popular, containing a selection of her more recent poems.

Ami Jordan is an English major from the southern region of the United States. An aspiring teacher, she has been featured in The American Review and The Arkansas Review. You can find her work at http://www.out-of-spite.deviantart.com/, where she shares over 400 pieces of prose and poetry.