Ishmael Reed is the author of novels, books of poetry, and plays. He is also a playwright. He has won prizes in all categories. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for thirty-five years. He has also has taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. Ishmael Reed is a member of Harvard's Signet Society and Yale's Calhoun Society. He lives in Oakland, California.
Carla Blank is the author of Live On Stage! and Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000.
Her articles have appeared in El Pais, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, Green Magazine, Hungry Mind Review, Counterpunch, and Konch. She lives in Oakland, California.