Douglas Smith’s first book is Judgments. Recent work can be read in Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Washington Square, Mid-American Review, Georgetown Review, and The South Carolina Review. He is a Contributing Editor at Lake Effect.

Denise Duhamel is the author, most recently, of Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. The guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013, she teaches at Florida International University.

Bruce Beasley is a professor of English at Western Washington University and author of seven collections of poems, including Theophobia and The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems. He has won three Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and other awards and honors.

Kathy Fagan is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Lip. She teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where she also edits the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry. Fagan has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the NEA.

John Bradley is the author of Trancelumination, You Don't Know What You Don't Know, War on Words, Terrestrial Music, and Love-In-Idleness. He is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He teaches at Northern Illinois University.