James Pate is the author of the poetry collection The Fassbinder Diaries. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches at Shepherd University. His poetry has appeared in Rhino, Action Yes, Cream City Review, and La Petite Zine, among other places.

Sandra Lim is the author of two collections of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque and The Wilderness. She was awarded the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize for The Wilderness. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Lisa Fishman is the author of six collections of poetry including Flowercart, Current, and The Happiness Experiment. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. She holds a PhD from the University of Denver and currently teaches at New York University. 

James Shea is the author of two poetry collections, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye. A former Fulbright scholar, he currently teaches in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.