Andrew Feld is the author of two books of poetry: Citizen and Raptor. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of the Seattle Review.

Susan McCabe is full professor at USC and formerly directed the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature. She has two books of poems, two critical books, and numerous publications in journals.

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. Her books of poetry include Incivilites and two chapbooks. She teaches creative writing and poetics at UC Berkeley.

H. L. Hix is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translation, and criticism. His most recent poetry collection is As Much As, If Not More Than.

Peter Streckfus is the author of Errings, winner of the 2013 POL Editors Prize through Fordham University Press, and The Cuckoo, published in 2004 as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A 2013 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, he teaches at George Mason University.