Frankie Abralind began experimenting with this work when he was lead designer at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital's Innovation Hub. For years on the weekends, he'd been listening to and writing poems for strangers on the streets of Washington, D.C.

Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press, 2019); her poems have also appeared in Little Patuxent Review, Delmarva Review, Broadkill Review, Apple Valley Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Kay McKean co-founded The Good Listening Project after working with leadership teams across industries to build trust and psychological safety in workplace cultures.