Derek Mong is the author of two poetry books—Other Romes and The Identity Thief—and a chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, Two Lines, and elsewhere. He is the Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College.

Aviva Kana is a PhD candidate in Hispanic literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara with a doctoral emphasis in translation studies. Her translation work focuses on experimental writing and she is currently translating several works by Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza.

Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic, and managing director of the American Literary Translators Association. She is the recipient of an English PEN Translates Award and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and her translation of The Queue was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.

Jesse Lee Kercheval