Benjamin Myers is a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and the author of two books of poetry, including the recently published Lapse Americana. His poems may be read in Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, and other journals. He teaches at Oklahoma Baptist University.

Tania Runyan is the author of Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air, which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Her poems have also appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and she received an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2011.

Brett Foster is the author of two poetry collections, The Garbage Eater and Fall Run Road. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Image, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, and Southwest Review. He teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton College.

Claire Bateman teaches part-time at the Fine Arts Center in South Carolina and is poetry editor of the St. Katherine Review. She is the author of seven poetry collections.