Jennifer Franklin (Brown AB, Columbia MFA) is the author No Small Gift and Looming. Her poetry has been published in The Paris Review, The Nation, Boston Review, and on poets.org. Coeditor of Slapering Hol Press, she teaches at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, a chapbook collaboration with Elizabeth Alexander.

Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Fine Motor and Saint Nobody; and coauthor, with Denise Duhamel, of ABBA: The Poems and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation. She is Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY in New York City.

Kim Addonizio's latest books are a collection of poems, Mortal Trash, and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress. She is the author of six other poetry collections, two novels, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius.

Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (a recipient of the Barnard Women Poets Prize), The Curiosities, and, with Kim Addonizio, the chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction. She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.