Victoria Chang's books are Obit, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, Circle, and Is Mommy? (picture book). She is the program chair of Antioch's low-res MFA program in LA.

Leila Chatti is the author of Deluge, Tunsiya/Amrikiya, and Ebb. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Cleveland State University, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow.

Ellen Bass celebrates her latest book, Indigo, at this year's AWP. Her poems have often appeared in the New Yorker and American Poetry Review. She is also coauthor of The Courage to Heal. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.

Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry: Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Saudade, Our Lady of the Ruins, and Rookery. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an associate professor at Kansas State University.

Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On. She was awarded a 92Y Discovery Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, NEA, and Jerome Foundation. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and teaches at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and Banteay Srei in Oakland.