Ted Mathys is the author of Gold Cure and three previous books of poetry. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the NEA, NYFA, and Poetry Society of America, he teaches at Saint Louis University and is president of the board of Saint Louis Poetry Center.

Kazim Ali is a poet, translator, essayist, and fiction writer. His most recent books are The Voice of Sheila Chandra (poems) and a nonfiction book, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. He is a professor in the literature department at the University of California, San Diego.

Dora Malech is the author of four books of poetry: Flourish, Stet, Say So, and Shore Ordered Ocean. A former Amy Clampitt Fellow and Ruth Lilly Fellow, her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Four Quartets Prize. He is an assistant professor of English and the director of creative writing at Wesleyan University.

Simone Muench is the author of six poetry books including Wolf Centos and Suture (written with Dean Rader). Coeditor of the collaborative writing anthology They Said and a recipient of NEA, VSC, and Yaddo fellowships, she serves as advisor for Jet Fuel Review and poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly.