Eric McHenry teaches creative writing at Washburn University. His books of poetry include Potscrubber Lullabies, which received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Mommy Daddy Evan Sage, a children’s book illustrated by Nicholas Garland.

Joseph Harrison has published two books of poetry, Someone Else's Name and Identity Theft. He is the Senior American Editor for The Waywiser Press, the contest coordinator for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and the editor of The Hecht Prize Anthology.

Sandra Beasley is the author of Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life; I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Theories of Falling, winners of New Issues Poetry Prize. Her work has been in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Oxford American.

Dora Malech is the author of two books of poems, Say So and Shore Ordered Ocean. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Tin House.

David Hassler