Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. She is a recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a former Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University.

Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, NEA Fellowship, and Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford. A recent Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, he is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Chicago.

Philip Metres is the author of a number of books and chapbooks, including Sand Opera, Pictures at an Exhibition, A Concordance of Leaves, and To See the Earth. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, has garnered a Lannan Fellowship, two NEAs, the Hunt Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize.