Dr Martin Kratz is Poetry Projects Manager at Manchester Metropolitan University. Currently, his main responsibility is project managing the Manchester Poetry Library, which is due to open in 2020.

Tyler Meier is the Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, a 17,000 square ft. facility located in Tucson Arizona that features a 70,000+ item poetry library and an extensive list of community based programs, including the Reading and Lecture Series, now in its 56th year.

Maggie Queeney is the library coordinator at the Poetry Foundation, where she designs and delivers adult educational programming. She is the author of settler, winner of the 2017 Baltic Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Southern Poetry Review, and Conjunctions, among other journals.

Reginald Harris is Director of Library and Outreach Services for Poets House in New York City. A poet and full-time library professional, he has been involved in the development and presentation of poetry and literature-related humanities programming for over twenty years.

Lorna Dawes is Assistant Professor and Social Science Librarian at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln with fifteen years experience in college and high school libraries. She serves as the Library Consultant for the African Poetry Libraries of the African Poetry Book Fund.