Kimberly Blaeser is the author of three books of poetry including Apprenticed to Justice and Absentee Indians. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she teaches creative writing and Native American literature. Her writing has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Heath Anthology of American Lit.

Janet McAdams is the author of the poetry collections Feral and The Island of Lost Luggage. Her most recent book, Red Weather, is a novel.

Margaret Noodin is a poet and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin‹Milwaukee. She is the author of Bawaajimo, a book on native literature and Weweni, a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English. Her poems and essays have been anthologized in numerous journals and collections.

Laura Tohe is Diné. A librettist and an award-winning poet, her books include No Parole Today, Making Friends with Water, Sister Nations (edited), Tséyi, Deep in the Rock, and Code Talker Stories. Her commissioned libretto, Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio, made its world premiere in 2008. 

b: william bearhart is a direct descendent of the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. His work has  appeared in cream city review, [PANK], and Yellow Medicine Review.