Shoshana Olidort is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University and poetry editor of Mantis, a journal of poetry, criticism and translation. Her research focuses on poetry as a mode of performing identity through a consideration of five 20th century Jewish women poets.

Alicia Ostriker 's most recent collections of poetry are The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog (2014) and Waiting for the Light (2017), which won the National Jewish book Award in 2017. She teaches in the low-res MFA program at Drew University and is an Academy of American Poets Chancellor.

Monica Mody is the author of Kala Pani and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Mission at Tenth and Kitaab, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Notre Dame. Her doctoral research explores South Asian women enacting decolonial spiritual borderlands.

Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. She is the author of two books of poetry, Merry Hell and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous. Over the course of two years, she and David Brazil edited and published more than 60 issues of the seminal Bay Area literary zine, Try Magazine.

Yosefa Raz is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Haifa. Her poetry books include In Exchange for a Homeland, and the chapbooks This Rumor of Darger’s Armies of Girls, and All These Years Practicing While Momentous Events Were Happening All Around.