Joan Houlihan is the author of four books of poems: Hand-Held Executions; The Mending Worm; The Us, and Ay. She is founding director of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference and the Concord Poetry Center, and she teaches in the Lesley University MFA Program and at Clark University.

Jeffrey Levine is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Pres. He is the author of two books of poetry: Mortal, Everlasting; and Rumor of Cortez.

Ellen Doré Watson's fourth and most recent book is Dogged Hearts. She teaches in the Drew University Low-Res MFA, directs the Poetry Center at Smith College, and she is poetry and translation editor at the Massachusetts Review. Her honors include fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and NEA.

Jeff Shotts is executive editor at Graywolf Press, where he acquires and edits poetry, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and translation.

Martha Rhodes is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Beds. She teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Sarah Lawrence College and is the director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books.