Stephanie Lenox is the author of one book of poetry, Congress of Strange People, and a poetry chapbook, The Heart That Lies Outside the Body. Co-founder of Blood Orange Review, an online literary journal, she teaches creative writing at Willamette University.

Janet Bowdan is the director of the undergraduate creative writing major at Western New England University and the editor of Common Ground Review. Her poems have been published in, among others, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Poetry Daily, and Best American Poetry 2000.

Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Mad Cursive. His work has appeared widely in such journals as Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and the Kenyon Review among others. He teaches at California State University Sacramento.

Matthew Kelsey is an adjunct instructor at Everett Community College and  the managing editor of Poetry Northwest.

Sean Prentiss is the editor of an anthology on the craft of creative nonfiction. The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre was published in 2013. His essays, poems, and stories have appeared in Brevity, Sycamore Review, Passages North, and ISLE.