Elizabeth Jorgensen is a writer and teacher. She has presented on sijo at a variety of conferences, including National Council of Teachers of English, Wisconsin State Reading Association, Wisconsin Writers Association, and elsewhere. Her articles on sijo have been published in English Journal, Azalea, Edutopia, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and Whale Road Review, among others. Jorgensen has received numerous awards, including Carroll University’s Graduate of the Last Decade, Arrowhead Union High School’s teacher of the year, and The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation Teacher Innovator Award. She was a Lucille S. Pooley Award winner (for Successful Techniques in Teaching Composition in the Schools of Wisconsin) and the Jarvis E. Bush winner from the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English. Learn more on her website: lizjorgensen.weebly.com Tracy Kaminer is a retired English teacher who has taught at Marist School in Atlanta and Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia. She specialized in teaching world literature in high school and at community colleges. She also taught ESL in Egypt and in the US. Now she and her husband live near Charlottesville, Virginia, and she works part time in undergraduate admissions for the University of Virginia.