D. E. (Doug) Green teaches literature, creative writing, composition, and gender and queer studies at Augsburg University. He has published many articles on Shakespeare, regular reviews of productions for Shakespeare Bulletin, general-interest essays, and poetry. His poem “Gratitude” won the 2017 Martin Lake Journal Bookend Prize. His poems also appear on the sidewalks of Northfield, MN, where he lives with his spouse, writer Becky Boling. Doug likes to say that he has been an occasional poet for over thirty-five years. Jumping the Median is his first book of poems.

[Tu the Judoka™] is a spoken word artist living in Midtown Minneapolis. He represented Minneapolis at the 2017 and 2019 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and is a two-time national silver medalist in judo. Until illness made it impossible, Tu was to play a Japanese internment camp survivor in Zafira and the Resistance at the Guthrie Theater. He loves Playstation 2 and lays the groove boogie on Jet Grind Radio!