Christie Laurie is a best-selling poet and has published haiku and poetry since 1976, receiving numerous prizes over the years. For more than two decades, she has presented workshops, poetry readings, and seminars throughout New England. Her first book, Seasons Rising: A Collection of Haiku, was published in 2011 to favorable reviews. She is the author of a memoir, two adult books on biblical characters, and a chapbook of inspirational insights, Inspiration Interludes (whose funds benefit the National League of American Pen Women). Steve Heaslip is the chief photographer for the Cape Cod Times, a National Press Photographers Association contest winner, New England Press Association Photographer of the Year in 2001 and 2005, and has won various New England Associated Press Editors Association first place awards. His photographs have been in two exhibitions and have appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and Yankee.Steve Heaslip is the chief photographer for the Cape Cod Times. He has been a National Press Photographers Association regional and national clip contest winner, and was named New England Newspaper and Press Association Photographer of the Year in 2001 and 2005. His photographs have been in two exhibitions, and have appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Yankee. Originally from Rochester, New York, he lives in Barnstable and has been photographing Cape Cod since the 1980s.