Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award. Winner of the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award, she teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Destiny Birdsong is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Adroit Journal, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, storySouth, and other publications. A Cave Canem and Callaloo alum, she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and elsewhere.

David Ebenbach is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novel Miss Portland. He teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University and is a project manager at Georgetown’s teaching center, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.

Katy Richey’s work has appeared in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, and The Offing. She received an honorable mention for the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from Fine Arts Work Center, MD State Arts Council, and the Cave Canem Foundation.

Susanne Paola Antonetta’s most recent book is Curious Atoms. Awards include a New York Times notable book, an American Book Award, a Library Journal best science book, a Pushcart Prize, and others. She coauthored nonfiction text Tell It Slant and is editor of the Bellingham Review.