Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collection Rough Honey, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Harvard Review, and Best New Poets. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and several awards.

Eric Lorberer, editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books, has published poems, essays, and criticism in numerous magazines and has been awarded a SASE/Jerome Fellowship for his writing. He directs the Rain Taxi Reading Series and Twin Cities Book Festival.

Adrian Todd Zuniga is the producer of Literary Death Match (a literary event series he created that's now featured in forty-eight cities worldwide) and the founding editor of Opium magazine. His fiction has been featured in Gopher Illustrated and Stymie, and online at Lost magazine and McSweeney’s.

Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the author of one book of poetry, Steady, My Gaze, and co-editor with Annie Finch of the anthology, Villanelles.