Beth Bachmann is the author of three collections of poetry: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Do Not Rise, winner of the PSA Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and CEASE, winner of the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize. She teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Kyle Dargan has authored four poetry collections, most recently Honest Engine. He has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He edits Post No Ills magazine and directs American University's MFA program.

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a collection, feast gently; a long poem, Testament; and a chapbook, Susquehanna. He teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch. From 2007 to 2018 he was editor at large for the Kenyon Review.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species and Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. She is a PhD student at the University of Chicago and is the poetry editor for the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Marwa Helal is a poet and journalist whose work appears in Apogee, Hyperallergic, The Offing, Poets & Writers, The Recluse, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. She is the author of Invasive Species and the winner of BOMB Magazine’s Biennial 2016 Poetry Contest.