Jeffrey Schultz is the author of two National Poetry Series selections: Civil Twilight and What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Pepperdine University.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is a poet and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania; she researches American poetry about the Holocaust. Author of the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars, she has held fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Auschwitz Jewish Center.

Major Jackson is the author of four collections, most recently, Roll Deep. A recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, Pushcart Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowship, Jackson is the Richard A. Dennis Professor at University of Vermont. He serves as editor of the Harvard Review.

Joshua Robbins is the author of Praise Nothing. He is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of the Incarnate Word.

Michelle Penaloza is the author of landscape/heartbreak and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes. A Kundiman fellow, Penaloza has been published by New England Review, Pleiades, and Vinyl, with poems forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Third Coast.