Shao Wei, currently working toward her PhD in the humanities at UT Dallas, is a bilingual poet and nonfiction author with four books of publications, including Pulling A Dragon's Teeth.

Ewa Chrusciel has two books of poetry in Polish and two in English, Strata and Contraband of Hoopoe. She also translated Jack London, I.B. Singer, Conrad, and Jorie Graham from English to Polish. Her poems were in Boston Review, jubilat, Spoon River, and Colorado Review. She is the associate professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College.

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and moved to the United States in 2006. She is the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body, and she has received the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize, among others.

Michael Gray is an MFA candidate at CSU-Fresno and an editorial intern for The Normal School. He attended the 2012 Raleigh Review Writer’s Studio Workshop. Honors include a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Project Award. Work appears in Rock & Sling, Cha, Puerto del Sol, Asian Pacific Review, and Fence.

Jonathan Stalling is an associate professor of English at OU specializing in Modern-Contemporary American and East-West Poetics, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies and he is the co-founder and editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine and book series.