Andrew Ciotola is managing and book review editor for West Branch and the program manager of the Stadler Center for Poetry. He edits the West Branch review section, a print and online venue for longform poetry reviewing.

Kyle Dargan has authored four poetry collections, most recently Honest Engine. He has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He edits Post No Ills magazine and directs American University's MFA program.

Shara Lessley, author of Two-Headed Nightingale, has been awarded NEA, Stegner, Diane Middlebrook, and O'Connor fellowships. Her work appears in Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and Kenyon Review. She is coediting an anthology on poetry and place.

Kaveh Akbar is founder and editor of Divedapper, a premiere home for dialogues with the most vital voices in contemporary poetry. His poems appear in Poetry, Tin House, American Poetry Review, FIELD, Boston Review, Narrative, and elsewhere.

Kelly Forsythe is the director of publicity for Copper Canyon Press, a lecturer at the University of Maryland, and the editor of Phantom Books, an online journal and chapbook press. Her work has appeared in American Poet, Black Warrior Review, Los Angeles Review, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere.