Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics, Groundspeed, and Empty Clip. Her poetry appears in Agni, Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She's an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He translated Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Drew University and in the low-residency MFA program at VCFA.

David Wojahn's ninth collection of poetry, For the Scribe, was issued in the Pitt Poetry Series in 2017. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Sunil Yapa’s debut novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner award. Yapa’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Guernica, O Magazine, Poets & Writers, LitHub, and others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.