Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split, the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Poets & Writers, and Poets House.

Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collection Navigation and the chapbook 40 Weeks. She is the poetry editor for the online journal Hyperlexia: poetry and prose about the autism spectrum. She is both an alumna and employee of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Lisa M. Steinman is the author of three books about poetry, most recently Invitation to Poetry, and six volumes of poetry, most recently Absence and Presence. Her work has received recognition from the NEA and the NEH. She teaches at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance and The Category of Outcast, a chapbook selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. He is the recipient of the 2013 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and the editor of Two Lines Press.