Melissa Tuckey is poet, editor, and educator living in upstate New York. She's author of Tenuous Chapel, selected by Charles Simic for the ABZ First Book Award and editor of Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She is a cofounder of Split This Rock.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of two poetry collections, Leaving Tulsa and Bright Rafter in the Afterweather. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has a PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts Low-Residency MFA.

Ruth Irupé Sanabria received her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her first book, The Strange House Testifies won second place for the 2010 International Latino Book Awards. Her second full-length collection of poems, Beasts Behave in Foreign Land, received the 2014 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize.

Tim Seibles has published several collections of poetry, including Buffalo Head Solos, Fast Animal—a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award—and, most recently, One Turn Around The Sun. He is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and the current Poet Laureate of Virginia.

Author of five books of poetry including the bestselling Emplumada, former Director of Creative Writing and Associate Professor of English at CU Boulder where she taught Creative Writing for nineteen years, Cervantes recently relocated to Olympia where she writes and revives her press, MANGO Publications.