Christopher Bakken is the author of three books of poetry (most recently Eternity & Oranges) and a memoir: Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table. He serves as director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos and he teaches at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

Graham Barnhart is a 2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. He holds an MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Army Special Forces Medic. His work has been awarded The Jeff Sharlett Memorial Prize and Chad Walsh Poetry Prize.

Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of The Green Shore. Her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, Salon, The New York Times, Granta, O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. She has received fellowships from the Camargo and MacDowell foundations, and she was a 2015 Fulbright Scholar in Athens, Greece.

Joanna Eleftheriou teaches at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the Writing Workshops in Greece. Her translations, fiction, essays, and poetry appear in journals including Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, and Crab Orchard Review.