Laura Read is the author of Dresses from the Old Country, Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You. She served as poet laureate for Spokane, Washington, from 2015–2017. She teaches English at Spokane Falls Community College.

Jenny Molberg is the author of the poetry collections Marvels of the Invisible, Refusal, and The Court of No Record. An NEA fellow, she is associate professor at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context and directs Pleiades Press.

Joshua Aiken is a Cave Canem fellow and black studies scholar. The former Policy Fellow at the Prison Policy Initiative, Joshua is a JD/PhD candidate at Yale in History and African-American Studies where his research focuses on the history of race and gun laws in the US since the Civil War.

Kanika Agrawal is an Indian (im)migrant writer-editor. She received an MFA in writing from Columbia and a PhD in English and literary arts from University of Denver. Recent work appears in BAX 2020, Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, FOLDER, and SAND. Her current project explores the language and derangement of "assimilation."

Wayne Miller's most recent books are the poetry collections We the Jury and Post-, which won the UNT Rilke Prize; a co-translation of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac; and the essay collection Literary Publishing in the 21st Century. Editor of Copper Nickel, he teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.