Spencer Hupp is an assistant editor for the Sewanee Review, the nation's oldest continuously published literary magazine.

Ange Mlinko is the author of Distant Mandate, her fifth collection of poetry. She received the Randall Jarrell Award from the Poetry Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an associate professor at the University of Florida.

Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and the forthcoming collection Pilgrim Bell. He teaches at Purdue University.

Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake (a book of poems). She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri and an MFA from the University of Maryland. A former Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, Katy is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Ball State University.