Ann Filemyr is a poet and writer. She serves as vice president of academic affairs at Southwestern College in Santa Fe. She co-led the creation of the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA in creative writing. Her most recent book of poetry is Love Enough. 

Denise (Dotson) Low is a past president of AWP. She is 2007-2009 Kansas poet laureate, with twenty-five published books of poetry, personal essays, and scholarship. Her works explore interactions of historic, "mythic," and "real" time with respect for her Lenape (Delaware) and British Isles heritage.

Susan Gardner is founding editor and publisher of Red Mountain Press in Santa Fe. A poet, painter, photographer, and literary editor, her first poetry was written in Japanese calligraphy, with later works in English and Spanish. She has received wide recognition for her poetry, art, and memoir.

Donald Levering received his MFA from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. He has worked as a teacher on the Navajo reservation, groundskeeper, and human services administrator. A former NEA fellow, he won the Quest for Peace Prize in rhetoric and was featured in the Academy of American Poets forum, the Ad Astra Poetry Project.