Camille T. Dungy's four books of poetry include Trophic Cascade. Her book of essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and coedited two other anthologies.

Katharine Coles has published seven collections of poems, two novels, and a memoir. A distinguished professor at the University of Utah, she has received awards from the NSF's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is author of five poetry books, most recently Stairway to Heaven, and four nonfiction books including Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. She is Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment & Social Justice at the University of Arizona and a Guggenheim Fellow.