Martin Jude Farawell directs the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, where he has filled a variety of roles since 1996. Author of the poetry collection Odd Boy, he was a visiting poet and writing, literature, and poetry instructor for a decade before arriving at Dodge.

P. Scott Cunningham, author of Ya Te Veo, serves as the director of O, Miami, a festival that aims for every single person in Miami to encounter a poem during the month of April. He is the executive editor of Jai-Alai Books.

Sarah Browning is cofounder and for ten years was executive director of Split this Rock. Author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden and co-editor of three special issues of Poetry magazine, she is the 2019 recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service Award.

Laurin Becker Macios is the former executive director of Mass Poetry and the former program director of the Poetry Society of America. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. Her books include Somewhere to Go and the chapbook I Almost Was Animal.

Daniel García Ordaz is the founder of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival and the author of You Know What I'm Sayin'? and Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment. His writing focuses is on celebrating the power of language. He teaches in the borderlands of deep S. Texas.