Jack McBride is program director for Writers in the Schools in Houston. He directs school programs, The Menil Collection project, and Creative Writing Camp, and he leads the WITS summer internship program. Jack is currently pursuing an Master of Nonprofit Administration from Notre Dame.

Cecily Sailer is the programs manager for the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation, coordinating community-based creative writing and literary programs. She occasionally writes for several Texas-based publications, including The Dallas Morning News.

Harold Terezón was awarded the PEN Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowship in 2006. In his third year as a teaching artist with WritersCorps, he previously taught poetry and the importance of higher education to students in Los Angeles. He is working on his first collection of poetry, Hunting Izotes.

Tina Cane is a poet, teacher, and the founder/ director of Writers-in-the-Schools, Rhode Island. She is also an instructor with Frequency Providence: a Writing Community and the author of The Fifth Thought. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals.

Sheila Black co-edited Beauty is a Verb: New Poetry of Disability. She is author of Love/Iraq, House of Bone, and the forthcoming Wen Kroy. She is a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellow in poetry selected by Philip Levine.