Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of three poetry collections and the memoir Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake. Coeditor of Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Stephanie Strickland’s eight books of poetry include Dragon Logic and The Red Virgin. She has also published eleven digital poems. Ringing the Changes, a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of bell-ringing, and How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected are forthcoming.

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of Beast Feast, Perverse, All Monstrous, and Flung Throne. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog, Pearl.

C. Violet Eaton is a poet living in Arkansas. He is the author of Some Habits and Quartet.

Susan Tichy’s recent books are The Avalanche Path in Summer, poems on mountains, wildfire, and geology; and Trafficke, a mixed-form meditation on her family’s 200 years of slave-owning. She teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at George Mason University.