Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Native/Luso, is author of the poetry books: Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming; memoir: Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer; the play: Icicles; and fiction in American Fiction, Konch, and Black Renaissance Noire.

Travis Nichols is a poet and novelist. His most recent novel is The More You Ignore Me. He currently works for Greenpeace USA with a focus on the oceans and the Arctic.

Sarah Fox is the author of Because Why and The First Flag. She works as a doula, placenta encapsulator, and astrologer; contributes to the arts and culture blog Montevidayo; and hosts interactive, multidisciplinary performance rituals and poetic revolts via the Center for Visionary Disobedience.

Kao Kalia Yang is the author of the award-winning book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Yang is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University's MFA program in creative nonfiction writing. She just finished her second manuscript, Still, Fluttering Heart: The Second Album.

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify and Broken World. His poems have been published in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts.