Owen Lewis, winner of the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry & Medicine and 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, as well as author of four poetry collections poetry: March In San Miguel, Sometimes Full of Daylight, Best Man and Marriage Map.

Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay and She Has a Name. A Pushcart prize winner, Moon was also selected as a PSA New American Poet. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Moon holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at Agnes Scott College.

Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, AGNI, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Guernica, he teaches creative writing at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

Kate Daniels is the author of five volumes of poetry, including In the Months of My Son's Recovery, forthcoming. She is Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University, and also teaches writing at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She was a Guggenheim Fellow 2013–14.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog & Wolf, Small Gods of Grief (Isabella Gardner Prize), and A New Hunger (ALA Notable Book). She taught at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Her fourth collection is, These Many Rooms.