Gregory Dunne is the author of two books of poetry Home Test and Fistful of Lotus. His nonfiction book Quiet Accomplishment: Remembering Cid Corman is forthcoming later this year. He is a professor at Miyazaki International College, Japan.

Alan Botsford is a professor at Kanto Gakuin University, Japan, and serves as editor of Poetry Kanto. He is author of the poetry collections mamaist: learning a new language and A Book of Shadows, and also of the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore.

Bern Mulvey's publications include the poetry book The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants and two chapbooks The Window Tribe and Character Readings. The former poetry editor of the Missouri Review, he is currently a professor at Iwate National University, teaching modern Japanese literature and writing.

Mariko Nagai