Kevin Prufer is the author most recently of How He Loved Them, Churches, In a Beautiful Country, and National Anthem. He is co-director of the Unsung Masters Series, and professor at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program and the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA Program.

Adrian Blevins’s third full-length collection of poems, Appalachians Run Amok, is the recipient of the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press and was published in 2018. Blevins is also the author of Live from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, and other books.

Hayan Charara is the author of three poetry books, most recently Something Sinister, and a children's book. He edited Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry, and with Fady Joudah is series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Houston.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a writer and poet. His latest collection of poems is Felon.

Kay Cosgrove