David Lynn has been the editor of the Kenyon Review since 1994. His most recent book is Year of Fire, short stories.

Kimiko Hahn, author of nine poetry collections, including the recent Toxic Flora. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY.

Charles Baxter is the author of five novels, five books of short stories, and two books of criticism. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Jaquira Diaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, the Sun, the Southern Review, Five Chapters, and Pushcart Prize XXXVII.