Daniel Tiffany is the author of ten books of poetry and literary criticism, including most recently, The Work-Shy. He teaches at USC in Los Angeles, and is a recipient of the Chicago Review Poetry Prize and the Berlin Prize.

Gerard Vizenor is emeritus professor of American studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than thirty books including fiction, theoretical writing, and poetry. His latest novel is Treaty Shirts. Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation.

Jena Osman's most recent books of poetry include Corporate Relations, Public Figures, and The Network (selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series). She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Harmony Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Motherwell Poetry Prize. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Columbia University, and she runs a boutique production house devoted to the crossing between archiving, improvisation, myth, and black music.