William Stobb is the author of six poetry collections, including You Are Still Alive and the National Poetry Series selection, Nervous Systems. He works as associate editor of Conduit and teaches on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and the forthcoming collection Pilgrim Bell. He teaches at Purdue University.

Caryl Pagel is the author of two collections of poetry: Twice Told and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death. Caryl is the cofounder and editor of Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She is an assistant professor at Cleveland State University.

Mark Yakich is the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. His most recent book is an edited collection: Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance. Since 2012, he has been editor of New Orleans Review.

Felicia Zamora's poetry books include Body of Render (2018 Benjamin Saltman Prize winner), Of Form & Gather (2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner), Instrument of Gaps, and & in Open, Marvel. She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize and is the associate poetry editor for Colorado Review.