Besmilr Brigham (1923-2000) was born Bess Miller Moore in Pace, Mississippi. Though she had been writing poetry since her girlhood, it was not until the 1950s that she began to study writing at the New School for Social Research and was a student of the poet Robert Duncan. She and her husband Roy resided in a wide variety of locations including Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Canada, France, Mexico, and Nicaragua. She wrote four volumes of poetry: Agony Dance: Death of the Dancing Dolls (1969), Heaved from the Earth (1971), Death of the Wild (1984) and Run Through Rock (2000) and has been published in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines such as: El Corno Emplumado, Harper's Bazaar, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, in New Directions annuals, and in Thomas Merton's Monk's Pond, as well as other college and independent magazines.

Will Inman (1923-2009), born William Archibald McGirt, legally changed his name in 1973 to Inman. He was both a poet and an editor, a graduate of Duke University (1943), he published and edited Kauri (1964-1971), a newsletter. He was also a faculty member of Montgomery College, associated with Free University of New York, and an artist in residence at the American University in Washington D.C. His poetry and correspondence appears in other archives, serials, and books such as: The Fire and the Serpent (1967), Surfing the Dark Sound, Sacred Chaff, Center Walking (1998), and A Resonance of Begetting (2001).