Jonathan Farmer is the author of That Peculiar Affirmative: On the Social Life of Poems and editor in chief and poetry editor of At Length. He teaches middle and high school English.

Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion. With poet Morgan Parker, she is The Other Black Girl Collective, an internationally touring Black Feminist poetry duo. Nafis was a recipient of the 2016 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2017 NEA fellow.

Michael Collier’s seventh book of poems is My Bishop and Other Poems. A recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and is a director emeritus of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.

David Tomas Martinez is the author of Hustle and Post Traumatic Hood Disorder. Martinez has earned a Pushcart, an NEA poetry grant, a Stanley P. Young fellowship from Breadloaf, and others.