Richard Skellington was born in St Anne's, Nottingham, in 1948. For the past 33 years he has worked in a variety of roles for the Open University - Britain's and probably the world's largest university famous for its innovative and paradigmatic teaching methods other educational institutions imitate globally.

Cheryl Chaffin became a mother at forty. Besides single parenting, she teaches English, literature, and creative writing at Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, California.

"Frame by Frame" is written by Christine Redman-Waldeyer.

In poems that are lyrical and delicate, powerful and moving, Christine Redman-Waldeyer draws us into her life as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.