John Hoppenthaler's books of poetry are Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and Lives of Water. He has also co-edited Jean Valentine: This-World Company. Editor of "A Poetry Congeries," he is a professor of creative writing and literature at East Carolina University.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has published four books of poetry, including The Glory Gets. Most recently, she received a poetry fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation and a fiction fellowship from Aspen Summer Words Conference. She is professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry published in the US and UK, including Madwoman, winner of the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean literature and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. She teaches at Penn State University.

Dan Albergotti