BK Fischer is the author of four books of poetry—Mutiny Gallery, St. Rage's Vault, Radioapocrypha, and My Lover's Discourse—and a critical study of ekphrasis, Museum Mediations. She teaches the Comma Sutra, a cross-genre seminar on grammar and syntax for MFA writers, at Columbia University.

Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay Nestuary, as well as three poetry chapbooks. She is founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs Tinderbox Editions, a nonprofit press.

Anna V. Q. Ross is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Poetry and the author of the collections If a Storm, Figuring, and Hawk Weather. Her work appears in The Nation, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Emerson College and hosts Unearthed Song & Poetry.

Eddie Vega is a poet, spoken word artist, and career educator. He writes about food, Tejano culture, social justice, and the intersections thereof. He is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Chicharra Chorus. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @eltacolico.

Antoinette Cooper is a poet, educator, and TEDx speaker. Her work focuses on the black female body, and she is currently at work on her first poetry collection. She has led writing workshops from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Rikers Island. She teaches writing at Columbia and CUNY Medical School.