Susan McAllister is the director of the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. She headed the fundraising committee for the 2005 National Poetry Slam and was a founding member of the International Poetry Institute. Don McIver is a performance poet who first started performing his work in Denver in the late 1980s. McIver hosts and produces KUNM-FM's ""Spoken Word Hour"" and is co-producer of ""The Poetry of Vietnam"" and ""Slam: Literary Fad or Movement."" Mikaela Renz is the writing mentor for the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Voces Program and helped coordinate volunteers at the 2005 National Poetry Slam. Daniel S. Solis has been writing and performing poetry for twenty years and holds numerous national and international Slam titles. Solis was the Artistic Director of the National Poetry Slam 2005 in Albuquerque and recently founded the Youth Poetry Corps.
