Andrea Hollander has written five full-length poetry books. Her many honors include two Pushcart Prizes (poetry and literary nonfiction) and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She conducts the Ambassador Writing Seminars in Portland, Oregon. andreahollander.net.

Rachel Mennies is the author of The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She works as an adjunct instructor and freelance writer, and serves as a member of AGNI's editorial staff.

Danusha Lameris's poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Sun, The New Ohio Review, The New York Times Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. Her books are The Moons of August and Bonfire Opera. She is the poet laureate of Santa Cruz, California.

James Crews is the author of two collections of poetry, The Book of What Stays and Telling My Father. He is also the editor of two anthologies--the forthcoming Queer Nature, a gathering of LGBTQ environmental poetry, and Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection.

Yehoshua November