Ruth E. Dickey is the Executive Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures. She has received a Mayor’s Arts Award in Washington, DC and an individual artist fellowship from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, and her poems and essays have appeared in Sonora Review, Cincinnati Review, and others.

Andrea Voytko is a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. She serves a the vice-chair of the board for Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Lisa Lucas is the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Before joining the Foundation, she served as the publisher of Guernica magazine and the director of education at Tribeca Film Institute.

Fiona McCrae has been the Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994.