Rachel Zucker is the author of nine books including MOTHERs and The Pedestrians. She received an NEA fellowship and her book Museum of Accidents was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches at New York University, and she is the host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People).

Ross Gay is the author of the poetry collections, Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, and the essay collection, The Book of Delights. He teaches at Indiana University.

Adam Falkner is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Award), and the Founder and Executive Director of the Dialogue Arts Project. He is an Arthur Zankel Fellow and PhD candidate in the English Education program at Columbia University.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Her collection of stories is, Wild Milk.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing. Her third book of poems, Rocket Fantastic recently won The Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize. She has poems forthcoming The New Yorker and other journals.