Jenny Browne's most recent collection is Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems, volume 17 in the Texas Poet Laureate Series. She teaches at Trinity University and is the 2020 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Center at Queens University Belfast.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of Oceanic, her fourth book of poetry, and a forthcoming book of nature essays. She serves as poetry editor for Orion and is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

Nathalie Handal's recent books include Life in a Country Album, which “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus,” and The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers." She is a professor at Columbia University.

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.