Jeffrey Levine is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press. He is the author of two books of poetry: Mortal, Everlasting and Rumor of Cortez.

CM Burroughs serves as the Elma Stuckey Poet in Residence at Columbia College Chicago. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, and Callaloo Writers Workshop.

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of two poetry collections, Darktown Follies and Red Summer, winner of the Dorset Prize. His honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Stacey Waite is the author of Butch Geography, the lake has no saint, love poem to androgyny, and choke, winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry. An assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she is the co-host of Prairie Schooner's podcast Air Schooner.