Elizabeth Scanlon is the editor in chief of the American Poetry Review. She is the author of Lonesome Gnosis, The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean, and Odd Regard.

Major Jackson is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man. A recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Hold Me Tight and Primary Source. He is the editor of the anthology Queer and is an associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award.

Megan Fernandes is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College and holds an MFA in poetry from Boston University and a PhD in English from University of California Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in journals such as the New Yorker, Tin House, Rattle, Guernica, Pank, the Common, among others.