Steve Woodward is associate editor at Graywolf Press. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan.

Sven Birkerts is the author of nine books, most recently The Other Walk: Essays. Editor of the journal AGNI at Boston University, he is the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Stephen Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including Belmont, Parallel Play, Close Calls with Nonsense, The Forms of Youth, and Why I Am Not a Toddler and Other Poems by Cooper Bennett Burt (Age One).

Leslie Jamison's first collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her work has appeared in publications including Harper's, Oxford American, the Believer, and A Public Space, and her debut novel Gin Closet, was a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Prize.