Jennifer Minniti- Shippey is Managing Editor of Poetry International, co-founder and faculty director of Poetic Youth, and a lecturer at San Diego State University. Her publications include the chapbooks Done Dating DJs and Earth's Horses & Boys.

Sherwin Bitsui is the author of Flood Song and Shapeshift. He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a PEN Open Book Award. He teaches at the Low Residency in Creative Writing at IAIA.

Catherine Barnett has received the James Laughlin Award, a Guggenheim, and a Whiting. Her third book of poems, Human Hours, was published last fall. Author of The Game of Boxes and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, she is core faculty at NYU and is a distinguished lecturer at Hunter.