Laura E. J. Moran is a playwright, performer, and poet. She teaches at Lackawanna College and her hybrid novel, Jump the Snake, is forthcoming in 2015. She was interviewed on the Poetry Foundation's "Harriet Blog" in 2011.

Glenis Redmond is the Poet-in-Residence at The Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, South Carolina and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship Recipient .

Daemond Arrindell is a poet, performer, and workshop facilitator. She is curator of the longest running weekly show in Seattle, the Seattle Poetry Slam, and Writer in Residence through Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools Program. In 2012 he taught Seattle University's first course in Slam poetry.