Sarah Vap is the author of five collections of poetry and poetics. Her most recent book is Viability.

Diana Arterian is the author of Playing Monster :: Seiche, the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Death Centos, and coeditor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. She's a poetry editor at Noemi Press and is earning her PhD in literature and creative writing at USC.

Douglas Manuel received a BA from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University. He is a fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, was released by Red Hen Press.

Todd Fredson is the author of the poetry collections Century Worm and The Crucifix-Blocks and translator of Josué Guébo’s My Country, Tonight, and Think of Lampedusa.

Dexter L. Booth is the author of the poetry collection, Scratching the Ghost. His poems have been published in Blackbird, Willow Springs, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. Booth is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.