Stacey Balkun is the author of three chapbooks, including Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, The Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner. Chapbook series editor for Sundress Publications and reviewer for the Bind, she teaches online at the Poetry Barn and the Loft.

Patricia Caspers's work includes In the Belly of the Albatross and Homecoming, a newspaper column. She won the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize and was named California's ed reporter and columnist of the year. She teaches writing and co-edits Roundhouse Review at Sierra College.

Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican American poet, NEA fellowship recipient, and author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize), Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series, U of Arkansas Press), and Girl with Death Mask (2017 Blue Light Books Prize, Indiana U Press).

Lori Desrosiers' recent poetry books include typing with e.e. cummings and Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak. She teaches poetry in the Lesley University MFA program. A new book, Keeping Planes in the Air, is forthcoming. She is editor of two journals, Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace.co.

Lee Herrick is the author of three books of poems, most recently, Scar and Flower. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit and served as Fresno poet laureate (2015–2017). He teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.