Susana H. Case, a retired professor, is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the N Train, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.

Margo Stever’s collections include Cracked Piano, Ghost Moose,The Lunatic Ball, The Hudson Line, Frozen Spring, and Reading the Night Sky. She is the founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current coeditor of Slapering Hol Press. She currently teaches poetry at Case Western Reserve University.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Tortillera. She is a contributing editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to Sexual Assault and associate editor for SWWIM Every Day. A career educator, she is an English professor in Miami, Florida.

Katherine Hoerth is the author of four poetry books, including Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots, which won the Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Lamar University and serves as editor in chief of Lamar University Literary Press.

Diana Whitney's poetry anthology for teen girls, You Don't Have to Be Everything, became a YA bestseller. She is the former poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and her personal essays and literary criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Kenyon Review, and Longreads.