Mark Terrill is the author of several collections of poems and prose poems, including Bread & Fish and Great Balls of Doubt. He shipped out as a merchant seaman, and later traveled extensively as tour manager for bands such as American Music Club and the Mekons. He participated in the School of Visual Arts Writing Workshop taught by Paul Bowles in Tangier in 1982, and has written about his experiences there in his recently republished memoir, Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles. Francis Poole is a writer and the editor of BLADES magazine. He lived in Morocco in the 1980s while teaching at the American School of Tangier, where he became friends with Paul Bowles. His publications include Tangier and the Beats: Sanctuary of Noninterference, Everybody Comes to Dean's, and a collection of his poems, Snakeskin Raincoat. In addition to co-authoring Ultrazone, Terrill and Poole have published two collaborative chapbooks of poetry, The Spleen of Madrid and A Pair of Darts.