David Welch received his MFA from the University of Alabama and now teaches at DePaul University, where he is assistant director of publishing and outreach. He's the author of the collection Everyone Who Is Dead, and his poems appear in journals including AGNI, Boston Review, and Colorado Review.

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her first poetry collection, Arrow, is forthcoming in 2020. Beginning in Fall 2019, she will be Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Michigan.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species and Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. She is a PhD student at the University of Chicago and is the poetry editor for the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Nomi Stone is a poet and anthropologist and author of Kill Class. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, her poems appear recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, New England Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in Poetry at University of Texas, Dallas

Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and recipient of three Bread Loaf scholarships. He holds an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. Keith works as a writer and game designer in Chicago.