Chad Abushanab is the author of The Last Visit, which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. His poems appear in The Believer, Best New Poets, Southern Poetry Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He is a PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at Texas Tech, and currently lives in Iowa City.

Erica Dawson is the author of three books of poetry: When Rap Spoke Straight to God; The Small Blades Hurt; and Big-Eyed Afraid. With a PhD from University of Cincinnati, she is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at University of Tampa, and serves as Director of UT's low-residency MFA.

TJ Jarrett is the author of Zion, winner of the 2013 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and Ain't No Grave. Her poems appear in the Poetry, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2017 George Garrett New Writing Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies. He has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems and a book of zuihitsu. He is the organizer of Singapore Unbound, which brings Singaporean and American authors and audiences together for conversations about literature and society. He runs the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in NYC.