Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of four books of poetry, including: Continuous Frieze Bordering Red, awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize; She, A Blueprint; and Beloved Integer. She currently teaches in and directs the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

Andrea Rexilius has authored two books of poetry: Half of What They Carried Flew Away and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. She is a member of the Poets’ Theater group, Girls Assembling Something Perpetual. She coordinates the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School.

J’Lyn Chapman is a Visiting Instructor at the Jack Kerouac School. She is the author of a chapbook of prose poems, Bear Stories, and her essays have been published in American Letters & Commentary and Conjunctions. She is earning a well-being coaching certificate through the Anthropedia Foundation.

Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty books, including Fast Speaking Woman and Vow to Poetry, a collection of essays, and The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, an epic poem and twenty-five-year project. With Allen Ginsberg, she co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics. She received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and she has recently been appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.