James Allen Hall's book of poems, Now You're the Enemy, won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. A recent NEA fellow, new work appears in Best American Poetry 2012, American Poetry Review, Bloom, and Arts & Letters.

Jericho Brown is the author of Please, which won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament, was recently published. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry, the Believer, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and jubilat.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of poetry and two books of nonfiction, the most recent of which are Animal Eye: Poems and Intimate: An American Family Photo Album. She teaches at the University of Utah.

Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collection, Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Claremont Graduate University. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Richard Siken is the author of Crush, which was the 2004 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. He is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants. Siken is an editor at Spork Press.