Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote, winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. She is a recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a former Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University.

Rosalie Moffett is a former Wallace Stegner fellow and the author of June in Eden, from OSU press. The winner of a Discovery prize and a Ploughshares Emerging Writer prize, her poems and essays appear widely. She is a writing center director, and teaches online for Stanford Continuing Studies.

Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Jerry Harp's most recent book of poems is Spirit under Construction. Currently, he is editing the letters of Donald Justice. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.

Heather Napualani Hodges received her Master In Fine Arts in Poetry from Portland State University. She received her Bachelor's degree in English from Lewis & Clark College. She has taught creative writing for both children and adults. She is working on a hybrid poetry memoir and a children's book.