Biljana D. Obradović is a Serbian American poet (with three collections, the newest being, Incognito, Word Tech Communications 2017), a translator (including Anthology Cat Painters of Serbian Poetry, Dialogos Press 2016), and she teaches at Xavier University of LA in New Orleans.

Danuta Hinc is a Senior Lecturer at University of Maryland where she teaches writing. She is the recipient of the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction from Bennington College where she received her MFA in Fiction. Hinc is the author of the novel To Kill the Other.

Bruce Weigl is Distinguished Professor in Arts and Humanities at the Lorain County Community College. He is the author, editor, translator, and co-translator of over twenty-five books, including critical studies of Charles Simic and James Dickey. His most recent collection of poetry, The Abundance of Nothing, was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.

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.