ELIZABETH BRADFIELD is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and the mixed-genre Toward Antarctica, which pairs her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, West Branch, Orion and many anthologies. She has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship, the Audre Lorde Prize, and was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist locally as well as on expedition ships in the high latitudes and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com ANTONIA CONTRO is a multimedia artist whose work ranges from discrete objects to site-specific installations and concept-based collaborations that engage artists and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines. Her art explores the nature of knowledge, memory, and time. Contro's exhibitions include Tempus Fugit at the American Philosophical Society Museum, Ex Libris at the Chicago Cultural Center, Closed/Open at the Newberry Library, and Descry at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Contro's work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Block Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Contro was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council fellowship, and a doctorate in humanities honoris causa from Lewis University. www.antoniacontro.com