Andrea Carter Brown is the author of Domestic Karma, The Disheveled Bed, and Brook & Rainbow. Her poetry has won the Rochelle Ratner Award from Marsh Hawk Press and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points. She is the series editor of the Word Works Washington Prize. andreacarterbrown.com

Scott Hightower is the author of Part of the Bargain, a Hayden Carruth Prize winner, Self-evident, and Tartessos, a bilingual English/Spanish collection. Hightower is also the recipient of a Willis Barnstone Translation Award. He is a teacher at NYU and writes book reviews for various venues.

Andy Young is the author of four chapbooks and a full-length poetry collection, All Night It Is Morning. She teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. A graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, she's published poems, essays, and translations internationally.

Megan Sexton's poetry collection Swift Hour received the Adrienne Bond Award. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is editor of Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art and teaches at Georgia State University.