Cynthia Hogue has published nine poetry collections, most recently Revenance and In June the Labyrinth. Her co-translation, from the French of Nathalie Quintane, is Joan Darc. Hogue was the inaugural Marshall Chair in Poetry at Arizona State University. She is emerita professor of English.

Martha Collins's most recent book of poems is Because What Else Could I Do. She has also published nine earlier collections of poetry and four co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. She founded the creative writing program at UMass-Boston and taught at Oberlin College for ten years.

Eman Hassan's debut poetry collection, Raghead, received a Folsom Award and was Editor's Choice in the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Aldus Journal of Translation, Blackbird, Ilonot Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. She is an ASU (MFA) and UNL (PhD) alumnus.

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close and St. Trigger, a chapbook that won the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright Scholar, Cave Canem fellow, and ALTA's 2017 Jansen Memorial Fellow, Aaron is currently a PhD student in comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis.