Alan Soldofsky's most recent collection of poems is In the Buddha Factory. He is also coeditor with David Koehn of Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody by Donald Justice. He is a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at San Jose State University.

Lily Dayton is a freelance journalist who also writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Her work appears in Writer’s Digest, the Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, and The Rumpus, among other fine outlets. She is pursuing her MFA in fiction at San Jose State University.

Douglas Unger is the author of four novels, including Leaving the Land, finalist for the Pulitzer, and the collection Looking for War and Other Stories. He is a founder and director of the Creative Writing International Program at UNLV, and serves on the executive board of Words Without Borders.

Leah Agne is the staff librarian at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Previously she served as university archivist and assistant professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Lorinda Toledo earned a PhD in literature with creative dissertation from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where her work was supported by a Black Mountain Institute Fellowship and other awards. She is past fiction editor of Witness, and teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles.