Milo Kearney is a Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville, with a B.S. in geology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor, and a UT Chancellor's Outstanding Teaching Award recipient. Milo Kearney's books include: The Little River That Wouldn't Run Straight: A Children's Story of the San Antonio River; Stories Brownsville Told Its Children; San Antonio's Churches; The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Culture; Medieval Culture and the Mexican-American Borderlands; Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville; Border Cuates: A History of the U.S.-Mexican Twin Cities; The Indian Ocean in World History; The Historical Roots of Medieval Literature; World Saviors and Messiahs of the Roman Empire; A Brief History of Education in Brownsville and Matamoros; Man, God, Satan, Jesus, and Holy Spirit: Poetic Observations; History's Mysteries in Verse and Sketch; And Yet: A Relationship in Verse; Don't Read Until 2050: Curiosities From My Memoirs; and a musical play, Border Walls. He's also the editor of the UT Studies in Rio Grande Valley History. Vivian (Aviva) Kearney was born in Poland, and raised in Paris and Montreal. She is a retired teacher of French, Latin, English, Spanish and Yiddish. She is now a substitute teacher. She has written poems since she was 18, has published seven books of poems entitled "Flowers of Wonder," "Dance with the Red-Gold Sun," "Seeking Signs, Finding Wonders," "The Unfathomable: Holocaust and After," "On God's River of Time," "Bearing Clues-Mysteries of "Objects", "Its Promising Branches", "Voices: Spoken, Written" and co-authored a book of poems, "And Yet, A Relationship in Verse," with her husband, Milo Kearney. Her poems have also been published in different publications, including "Lone Stars Magazine", the "Journal of Texas Teachers of Foreign Languages," "Voices de la Luna Magazine," "Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival," "Studies in Border History," "Interstice," "VIA Poetry Program (Celebrating Poetry Month on the city buses of San Antonio)." Vivian and Milo participate in several poetry groups in San Antonio, Texas.