Owen Lewis is the winner of the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry & Medicine and 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, and author of four poetry collections poetry: March In San Miguel, Sometimes Full of Daylight, Best Man, and Marriage Map.

Nathan McClain is the author of Scale. He is a graduate from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and a Cave Canem fellow. He currently teaches creative writing at Drew University.

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close and St. Trigger, a chapbook that won the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar, Cave Canem fellow, and ALTA's 2017 Jansen Memorial Fellow, Aaron is currently a PhD student in comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis.

Danielle Legros Georges is a poet, essayist, and professor at Lesley University. She is the author of two book of poems, The Dear Remote Nearness of You and Maroon.

Eamonn Wall