Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community Tapa dura - 2006

Gary Harwood has been a photographer for Kent State University for more than 22 years and chief photographer since 1987. He has won four national Circle of Excellence awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), was named the 2001 University Photographers Association of America's Photographer of the Year, and won the 2005 James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award from the Ohio News Photographers Association (ONPA). His work has appeared in numerous national publications, including the Communication Arts Photo Annual and the Graphis Photo Annual, and he received the 2006 Individual Artist grant for photography and the 2005 Artists and Communities grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

David Hassler is the author of two books of poems, Sabishi: poems from japan and Red Kimono, Yellow Barn. He is co-editor of A Place to Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. A recipient of an individual Artist Fellowship and an "Artists and Communities" grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and of the Richard Devine Memorial award for poetry, his poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Double-Take/Points of Entry, Indiana Review, and other journals. He is the program and outreach director for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, where he teaches and conducts writing workshops in local schools and senior centers.