Catherine Barnett has received the James Laughlin Award, a Guggenheim, and a Whiting Writers Award. Her third book of poems will be published this year. Author of The Game of Boxes and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, she works as an independent editor and teaches in the writing program at NYU.

Roger Reeves was awarded a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House. His first book is King Me.

Ama Codjoe has been awarded support from Saltonstall Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, Four Way Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

Julie Carr is the author of five books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence, Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines, RAG, and Think Tank. Prose books include Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry and Objects from a Borrowed Confession.

Ed Skoog is the author of three books of poems, Mister Skylight, Rough Day, and Run the Red Lights.