David Welch received his MFA from the University of Alabama and now teaches creative writing and popular literature at DePaul University, where he is coordinator of literacy outreach. He lives in Chicago, volunteers at 826CHI, and serves as poetry editor of ACM.

Jaswinder Bolina is author of the poetry collections Phantom Camera and Carrier Wave and of the digital chapbook The Tallest Building in America. He teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

Reuben Jackson hosts Night Jazz on Vermont Public Radio. He is also a poet whose volume of verse entitled Fingering the Keys won the Columbia Book Award. His poems have also appeared in over forty anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and journals such as Gargoyle. He is also a youth workshop leader.

Dora Malech is the author of two books of poems, Say So and Shore Ordered Ocean. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of poetry at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Erika Sanchez is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, and her young adult novel, Brown Girl Problems, are forthcoming. She has received a "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Ruth Lilly Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.