Mark Neely's first book, Beasts of the Hill, won the FIELD Poetry Prize. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University.

Elena Passarello is the author of Let Me Clear My Throat. She is an assistant professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and a faculty mentor in Murray State University's low-residency MFA program.

Marcus Wicker is the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing, selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and he is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.

Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, forthcoming in 2014. Her stories and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, and the Bellevue Literary Review. She teaches writing at Boston's Grub Street.

Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the 2011 Minnesota Book Award-winning memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA. She teaches in the Ashland University low-residency MFA program in nonfiction, and she is a prose editor for Versal.