Judith Baumel is a poet, critic, and translator. She is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She served as president on the AWP Board of Trustees. Her books of poetry are The Weight of Numbers, Now, and The Kangaroo Girl.

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.

Eva Foster earned an MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. She has been published in the Florida Review and the Helen Burns Poetry Anthology. She is associate department chair of English at Houston Community College.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two collections, Last Seen, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection, and Gravity, U.S.A., recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award; and the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. She teaches at Adelphi University