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Shana Liebman, the Arts Editor of *Heeb Magazine*, conceived and now curates the *Heeb Storytelling* series. She is also a freelance writer and editor who has worked for *The Village Voice*, *PAPER*, *Salon*, *The New York Observer* and *The Independent*,and is a regular contributor to *New York Magazine*.

Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of two short story collections and six novels. She is a professor of fiction writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts.

McCloskey is an accomplished journalist, a senior fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service, and a senior consulting partner at Julius Capital Partners.

Dr. Enrique Caballero is the director of the Joslin Latino Diabetes Initiative at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA.

Misty Anaya is an 18-year-old diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 12. Anaya is also featured on the MyType2 website, a web community for teens that provides important resources and a forum to share personal stories about living with diabetes.

Kevin Harris is the Vice President and Television Station Manager of *WETA* in Virginia.

We are only now, in the post-genome era, able to ask comprehensive questions about how genes and genomes evolved among groups and populations over long periods of geologic time. Chris Organ's current research takes advantage of these developments to address fundamental questions that span broad levels of biological organization, from genes and morphology to paleobiology.

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, *Small Island*, won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in London.

Barbara Helfgott-Hyett has published five collections of poetry, most recently *Rift*. Her poems and essays have appeared in hundreds of journals and magazines, and she has been awarded numerous poetry prizes and national fellowships. She has taught English at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University, where she won the Sproat Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the director of PoemWorks: The Workshop for Publishing Poets, in Brookline, MA, and has taught for many years at BU, Harvard, Trinity, and MIT. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Jorie Graham is the author of 10 collections of poetry, most recently *Sea Change*. She lives in Cambridge and teaches at Harvard University.

Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and has been a recipient of a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. She won the 1993 Grolier Prize for Poetry. Her poetry collection, *Crossroads and Unholy Water*, won the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Prize. Her collection *The Company of Heaven--Stories from Haiti* just won the Iowa Short Fiction Award from the University of Iowa Press. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Frannie Lindsay's newest volume of poetry, *Mayweed,* is the 2009 winner of the Word Works' Washington Prize. Her previous books are *Lamb* and *Where She Always Wa*s. She is the 2008 winner of the Missouri Review Prize. Her poems are widely published, and she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is also a classical pianist. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.