Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author or editor of fifty books, a filmmaker and photographer, as well as a chevalier in France's Ordre des arts et des lettres. Diane Christian is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is a poet (Wide-Ons, Occasion Poems) and a filmmaker. Jackson and Christian have collaborated on many books, including Voices from Death Row: Second Edition, also published by SUNY Press, and In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, and the films, Creeley, Out of Order, and Death Row. They live in Buffalo, New York.