Anna V. Q. Ross’s latest book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and the Julia Ward Howe Award. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander. She teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative.

Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay Nestuary, as well as three poetry chapbooks. She is founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs Tinderbox Editions, a nonprofit press. Molly lives and teaches in Minnesota.

Nadia Colburn is an independent scholar with the Ronin Institute and has published in the New Yorker, APR, Slate, Literary Imagination, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She leads creative writing workshops and is a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet.

Hyejung Kook’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Other works include essays in Poetry as Spellcasting and The Critical Flame, and a chamber opera libretto. She is a Fulbright grantee and Kundiman fellow.

Julie Choffel’s poems have appeared in Orion, Denver Quarterly, Posit, Interim, the tiny, and RHINO. She is the author of The Hello Delay, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize. Choffel is Poet Laureate Emeritus of West Hartford, Connecticut, and professor of creative writing at the University of Connecticut Hartford.