Tess Taylor’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and the New Yorker. She is the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR's All Things Considered and has taught at Whittier College, University of California Berkeley, and Queen's University Belfast. Her books are The Forage House and Work & Days.

Dean Rader's recent books include Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Suture (written with Simone Muench), and Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence in the U.S. (with Brian Clements and Alexandra Teague). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.

Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure. Brynn is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of two poetry collections, Leaving Tulsa and Bright Rafter in the Afterweather. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has a PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts Low-Residency MFA.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of Cenzontle, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Prize, Dulce, and Children of the Land. A Canto Mundo Fellow, he cofounded the Undocupoets campaign.