Sandy McIntosh has published eleven volumes of nonfiction prose and poetry. He has published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He has been managing editor of Long Island University's Confrontation magazine, and is currently publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.

Mary Mackey is Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Sacramento, founder of the CSUS Creative Writing Program, and author of fourteen novels and eight poetry collections, including The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams and Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry Scald is published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her book with Julie Marie Wade The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose is forthcoming from Noctuary Press. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Duhamel is a professor at FlU in Miami.

Geoffrey O'Brien has published eighteen books, including eight poetry collections, most recently Early Autumn, In a Mist, and The Blue Hill; as well as prose works including Dream Time, The Phantom Empire, and Sonata for Jukebox. Retired as editor-in-chief of Library of America, he is a frequent contributor at The New York Review of Books.

Jason McCall holds an MFA from the University of Miami. His poetry collections include Two-Face God; Silver; and Dear Hero, winner of the 2012 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. He is coeditor of It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop, and he teaches at the University of North Alabama.