Julie Swarstad Johnson works as a senior library specialist for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is the author of Pennsylvania Furnace, a collection of poetry. With Christopher Cokinos, she is the editor of the forthcoming anthology Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight.

Katherine Litwin is the library director at the Poetry Foundation, where she oversees library collections and programming, and curates exhibitions.

Melissa Eleftherion is the author of Field Guide to Autobiography. She holds an MLIS from San Jose State University and an MFA from Mills College. Founder of the SFSU Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, Melissa works as a librarian, teaches creative writing, and curates the Loba Reading Series.

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