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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.

Wendy Mnookin is the author of four books: *The Moon Makes Its Own Plea*, *What He Took*, *To Get Here,* and *Guenever Speaks*. Her poems appear in journals such as *The Greensboro Review*,* Harvard Review*, *POOL*, *Prairie Schooner*, and *Rhino*, and in a number of anthologies. She has won a book award from the New England Poetry Club and a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mnookin teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute in Oregon and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including *The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft*, and *Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford.*

Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems: *Where the World is Made*, *Double Life*, *The Narrows*, and *Second Things*. His fifth collection, *Belated Heavens*, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. Among his awards are The Discovery/The Nation Award, The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Jean-Dany Joachim is the Cambridge Poet Populist for 2009 -2011. As the creator and producer of City Night Reading Series, he brings together poets, writers, performers and lovers of literature for the celebration of the art of word in the Boston and NYC areas. He is the author of Chen Plenn — Leta and White Dress in January, and his work has appeared in anthologies and numerous literary magazines.