Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of The Broken Country and Imaginary Vessels. Her forthcoming book of poetry is Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive project Mapping Salt Lake City.

Joanna Luloff is the author of the short story collection The Beach at Galle Road and the novel Remind Me Again What Happened. She is an Assistant Professor at The University of Colorado Denver where she edits fiction and nonfiction for Copper Nickel.

Jena Osman's book of poems, Motion Studies, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Press. Other books include Corporate Relations, Public Figures, and The Network (selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series). She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Temple University.

Matt Donovan is the author of Vellum, which won the Bakeless Prize in Poetry. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, and VQR. Donovan is the recipient of a Rome Prize, a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an NEA fellowship.

Matthea Harvey is the author of five books of poetry (most recently, If the Tabloids are True What are You?) and two children's books. Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, Matthea teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.