Tess Taylor was the 2010 Amy Clampitt Resident. Her poetry and journalism appear widely. Her chapbook of poems, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America's 2003 Chapbook Fellowship. Her book The Forage House was named one of its season's most exciting books by Publishers Weekly.

Shane Book’s debut collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award, and it was a Poetry Society of America New American Poet Selection. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Rachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. She is the author of Copperhead, a poetry collection, and is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill.

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of three books, most recently To Keep Love Blurry: Poems and Cradle Book: Stories and Fables. He works as Director of Digital Operations at Publishers Weekly, he has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and he teaches at NYU and the New School.

Martha Collins is the author of Day Unto Day, White Papers and the book-length poem Blue Front. She has also published four earlier collections of poems and three co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. She is editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor for the Oberlin College Press.