Chris Mackenzie Jones is the Marketing and Communications Director at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis (www.loft.org). Chris received an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida. He is the author of Behind the Book. Find him at @cimjones.

Brian Benson is the author of the memoir ​Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America.​ He teaches creative nonfiction at Portland’s​ ​Attic Institute and facilitates free Write Around Portland workshops in prisons, schools, and affordable housing.

Bao Phi is Program Director of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. He has been a spoken word poet since the early '90s. He has performed in numerous venues all over the country, and, as an arts administrator, strives to serve different communities of writers locally and nationally.

Steve Woodward is an editor at Graywolf Press. He has an MFA from the University of Michigan and teaches at Sierra Nevada College.

Monika Woods is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, a writer whose work has been published by Joyland, Catapult, Tyrant, Brooklyn Magazine, and Lit Hub, and an editor at the Triangle House Review. She can be found @booksijustread.