Mark Lyons is the co-editor of Espejos y Ventanas/Mirrors and Windows, Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and Their Families. He has worked in the Latino community for the last twenty years, as a health worker and community organizer. For ten years he was the director of the Farmworkers Health and Safety Institute, a consortium of grass-roots farmworker organizations in Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The institute trained farmworkers to use theater and other popular education methods to educate other farmworkers concerning health and safety issues such as pesticides, field sanitation, housing, drinking water, and HIV/AIDS and workers’ rights.

Lyons is also a fiction writer who has published several short stories. He is a recipient of a 2003 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the J.P. McGrath Memorial Award from Whetstone Magazine; and was nominated for the 2003 Pushcart Prize. He is on the Board of New City Community Press.

August Tarrier, Ph.D is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher with 20 years experience. She is President of MyScribe Writing and Editing Services, a freelance writing business. Her specialty is her work as a writing coach, providing support and feedback for writers. She is a skilled developmental editor and she excels at inspiring writers to find their vision and purpose. She is also adept at providing extensive notes on style, structure, grammar and spelling. August is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore. She teaches writing workshops and classes in editing, publishing, magazine and book design.