Jeffrey Levine is the artistic director and publisher of Tupelo Press, an independent literary press founded in 1999 and located in North Adams, Massachusetts. His most recent book is At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered. Additionally, he is translator of Pablo Neruda's masterpiece, Canto General.

J. Mae Barizo, born in Toronto to Filipino immigrants, is a poet, essayist, and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (2023) and The Cumulus Effect. She is on the MFA faculty of the New School and lives in New York City.

Iliana Rocha is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry for her newest collection, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez, available from Tupelo Press. Karankawa, her debut, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).

Rohan Chhetri is the author of Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful (Tupelo Press/HarperCollins). A recipient of a 2021 PEN/Heim Grant for translation, his poems have appeared in the Paris Review, AGNI, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and Revue Europe, among others.

Kelly Weber is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis (Omnidawn, 2023). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Pleiades, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. They hold an MFA from Colorado State University.