Karen Head is the author of Disrupt This! MOOCs & the Promises of Technology, Sassing, My Paris Year and Shadow Boxes. She teaches at Georgia Tech, where she also creates digital poetry. She is the editor of the Atlanta Review, and is a member of the Poetry Atlanta Board.

Martin Lammon is the author of News from Where I Live: Poems. After 21 years as the Fuller E. Callaway Endowed Flannery O’Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University, where he founded the MFA in Creative Writing program and the journal Arts & Letters, he is now living and writing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-born poet and writer. The inaugural 2018 Writer-in-Residence at UCLA, her literary work numbers over twelve collections of poetry, translations, and anthologies, as well as several plays. Her most recent publication includes The Conference of the Birds.

Ilya Kaminsky lives in San Diego, CA.

Former Louisiana Poet Laureate Julie Kane is Professor Emeritus at Northwestern State U, now teaching in the low-res MFA program at Western State Colorado U. A National Poetry Series and Donald Justice Prize winner, she coedited Nasty Women Poets: An Anthology of Subversive Verse with Grace Bauer.