Katie Marya is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has appeared in The Rio Review, North American Review, Southern Indiana Review, and Five Points as the recipient of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry.

Gregory Pardlo's ​collection​ Digest won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has received Guggenheim, NEA, and NYFA fellowships. He is the author of the essay collection Air Traffic, and teaches in the Rutgers-Camden MFA program.

Airea D. Matthews is the author of Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. A past recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she teaches at Bryn Mawr College.

David Tomas Martinez is the author of Hustle and Post Traumatic Hood Disorder. Martinez has earned a Pushcart, an NEA poetry grant, a Stanley P. Young fellowship from Breadloaf, and others.