Synnika Lofton is a poet/recording artist who has recorded more than thirty albums of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, and UpStreet: A Literary Magazine. He wrote the poem, "Sacred Drum," for the Goddard College Presidential Inauguration of President Mark Schulman. Through his Global Poetry Project, his poetry has been heard in France, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Haiti, Venezuela, and Israel. His poems, "Guerrilla Ignition" and "Love's Outlaw" appeared in the documentary, Super-Size Me, Too. Lofton received a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Visit his web site at www.synnika.com

Alfreda Brown-Kelly is an author of poetry who lives in Hampton Virginia.  Alfreda is a native of Thibodaux, Loiusiana and previsouly lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for ten years.  Alfreda has written poetry for years and has started on a children's collection called the Victoria E. Kelly Series. As a child, reading was Alfreda's favorite hobby and the weekly highlight was waiting for the bookmobile to arrive to check out as many books as possible.

Alfreda is a graduate of Delgado Community College and Nicholls State University. She currently attends Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is an Alfreda's peotry has been featured avid reader of poetry, biographies and christian and contemporary fiction.  Transformation of the Mind, Body & Soul is her first book.  Her second book aof poetry will be released in October this year.  nually in the anthology Ancestral Rites published by BookClubEtc, and also in Praise and Hampton Roads My Time magazines.  Please visit her website at www.alfreadabrownkelly.com