James Allen Hall is the author of I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, a book of lyric essays, as well as a book of poems, Now You're the Enemy, which won awards from Lambda Literary, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches at Washington College.

Jennifer S. Cheng writes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text. She is the author of Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems, named a Publishers Weekly Best Book, and House A. She is an NEA Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a US Fulbright Scholar, and she teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

Danielle Cadena Deulen is an associate professor at Willamette University and hosts the podcast and radio show LitFromTheBasement.com. She is the author of two poetry collections, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us and Lovely Asunder, as well as a memoir, The Riots (winner of the AWP Prize).

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven poetry collections, including most recently American Samizdat, Dots & Dashes, and The Arranged Marriage, as well as a book of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes. She is a professor at the University of North Texas.

Lia Purpura authored nine collections (essays, poems, and translations) most recently, All the Fierce Tethers (essays.) Her awards include Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright fellowships, and four Pushcarts. On Looking (essays) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches at UMBC.