Andrea Cohen's fifth poetry collection, Unfathoming, is forthcoming. Recent books include Furs Not Mine and Kentucky Derby. She directs the Blacksmith House and the Writers House at Merrimack College.

Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. He is a PhD student at the University of Chicago, and the 2016–2017 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.

Megan Staffel’s most recent book is The Exit Coach, a novella and stories. The author of two novels and three collections of short fiction, essays on the craft of fiction collected in books and journals, she teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has been a finalist in the AWP Prize for the Novel.

Christina Pugh's third book of poems is Grains of the Voice. Her fourth book, Perception, is forthcoming. The recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, she is a professor in the program for writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry magazine.

Henry Israeli