Kevin Craft is the editor of Poetry Northwest. His books include Solar Prominence, and five volumes of the anthology Mare Nostrum. He teaches at the University of Washington’s Creative Writing in Rome Program and directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College.

Nicky Beer is the author of the book of poems The Diminishing House, which won the 2010 Colorado Book Award for poetry. Her awards include an NEA grant and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver.

Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of three full-length collections: The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems; And Her Soul Out of Nothing; shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities; and a chapbook, On the Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed.

Sierra Nelson is author of lyrical choose-your-own-adventure I Take Back the Sponge Cake, chapbook In Case of Loss, and collaborative poetry book Who Are We? Investigations & Findings. She teaches at Richard Hugo House and via WITS at Seattle Children’s Hospital working with palliative care youth.