John Gallaher is the author of two chapbooks and five books of poetry, most recently In a Landscape, as well as co-editor of The Akron Series in Poetics, the Laurel Review, and Time Is A Toy: The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt.

Luke Rolfes teaches creative writing in Missouri. He co-runs Greentower Press and is the author of the Midwestern collection of stories Flyover Country. He serves as a mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer program.

Caroline Chavatel is the author of White Noises, and her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, AGNI Online, Prairie Schooner​, and others. She is an editor at Madhouse Press and a cofounding editor of the Shore. She is currently a PhD student at Georgia State University.

Gary Jackson is author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, and elsewhere. He lives in Charleston, SC, where he teaches in the MFA program at the College of Charleston.

Minna Zallman Proctor is the author of Landslide: True Stories and Do You Hear What I Hear. She translates from Italian; her most recent translation is Natalia Ginzburg's Happiness, As Such. She is editor of The Literary Review and teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.