Timothy Liu is the author of ten books of poems, including Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain (1992–2017) and Kingdom Come: A Fantasia. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He is professor of English at William Paterrson University.

Tree Swenson is the executive director of the Seattle literary center Hugo House. She was previously executive director of the Academy of American Poets in New York City. Her work in the literary arts began with cofounding Copper Canyon Press, where she was publisher and executive director for twenty years.

Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Thom Gunn Awards for Gay Poetry. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Fulbright/IIE, the NEA, and elsewhere. He is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of The Broken Country and Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's Poet Laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive project Mapping Salt Lake City.

David Semanki is literary executor for both Linda Gregg and Jack Gilbert and a former graduate student of Linda's at Columbia University.