Krista Benson has been working for non-profits since she was 17 and figures that this is the only place that's something to brag about. She prefers her poetry prosaic, her prose poetic, and her photographs in black and white. She got involved with Por Vida Press because she needed to take all of that book layout experience and do something more important than publishing with a vanity press. She likes Photoshop, PageMaker (because she's old-school), tattoos and long walks on the beach. She is a lifelong enemy of double-spaces after periods and the serial comma.
Shira Feldman leads a wild bohemian lifestyle in the East Village, living off words and wine. She loves the law and her cat and dirty martinis, and thinks Spanish olive oil is better than Italian. She is not named for She-Ra, Princess of Power, but might as well have been, because she is a warrior against the comma splice.
Anna Genoese likes her scotch straight up and prefers poetry to groceries. She's been working in the publishing industry for more than eight years; she started Por Vida Press because she was tired of reading wonderful work and not being able to publish it. She also loves royalty statements, and seeing artists well-compensated for creative endeavors. Suck it, establishment.
Tracy Waterman is sometimes a poet, mostly an ersatz linguist, and always a librarian. She works with Por Vida because it's the thing to do, especially if you have strong opinions about punctuation, and she's always doing the thing, when she's not wrangling information. She makes cold-brewed coffee and describes food like it's sex (because it is). She's currently seriously involved with the semicolon and doesn't believe it should ever have a hyphen.
The Por Vida Press logo was created by Jozelle Dyer, and illustrated by Pablo Defendini. Pablo also created the specialized text on the logo.