Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, and Backwards Days, and the chapbooks Animate Earth and Touch Monkey. He is the Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro.

David Roderick’s first book of poems, Blue Colonial, won of the APR/Honickman Prize. His next book, The Americans, is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Rachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Author of Copperhead, a poetry collection, she is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC Chapel Hill.

Terry L. Kennedy is the author of the poetry collections New River Breakdown and Until the Clouds Shatter the Light that Plates Our Lives. He currently serves as the associate director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro and he is editor of storySouth.

Rebecca Black is the author of Cottonlandia, winner of the Juniper Prize in Poetry. A Wallace Stegner, NEA, and Fulbright fellow, she has taught poetry and nonfiction at Stanford and Santa Clara University. She is now a faculty member in the MFA Program at UNC Greensboro.