Aria Aber is a poet based in Madison, WI. Her debut book, Hard Damage, won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and others.

Sara Fan is a creative nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of San Francisco and has an MFA in poetry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was assistant managing editor of Ninth Letter.

Shara Lessley (author of The Explosive Expert's Wife and Two-Headed Nightingale, and coeditor of The Poem's Country) has been awarded NEA, Wallace Stegner, Diane Middlebrook, Olive B. O'Connor, Mary Wood, and Reginald S. Tickner fellowships. She is assistant poetry editor for Acre Books.

Carlina Duan is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair. She received her MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University and is currently a PhD candidate in English and education at the University of Michigan, where she studies creative writing pedagogy and sociolinguistics.