Grace Bauer's books include Nowhere All At Once, Retreats & Recognitions, Beholding Eye, and The Women At The Well, as well as four chapbooks. Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and she teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Julie Kane's books include the recent Paper Bullets; Jazz Funeral, which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize; and Rhythm & Booze, Maxine Kumin's choice for the National Poetry Series. The 2011-2013 Louisiana poet laureate, she teaches at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Jan Beatty is the author of four books of poetry: The Switching/Yard, Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She directs the writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and teaches in the MFA program.

Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. She holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska, and she has received an Academy of American Poets Award and the Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship.