Sarah Stickney is a former Fulbright grantee for the translation of Italian poetry. Her cotranslations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, The Guest in the Wood, won the University of Rochester's Best Translated Book Award in 2014. She teaches at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.

Curtis Bauer is a poet, translator, letterpress printer, chapbook publisher, and teacher. He teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University, runs Q Avenue Press, and is translations editor for From the Fishouse and Waxwing Journal.

Mira Rosenthal is the author of The Local World and the translator of two books by Polish poet Tomasz Rozycki. Her awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and the Northern California Book Award. She is assistant professor of poetry writing at Cal Poly.

Russell Scott Valentino is an author, editor, teacher, and translator based in Bloomington, Indiana. He is a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Indiana University and senior editor at Autumn Hill Books. His most recent book in paperback is The Woman in the Window.

Sawako Nakayasu’s books include The Ants, Texture Notes, and Mouth: Eats Color. Her newest translations are Tatsumi Hijikata’s Costume en Face and The Collected Poems of Sagawa Chika, which won the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has received fellowships from the NEA, PEN, and JUSFC.