Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the shared executive director of America's two national service organizations for independent literary publishing: the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and Small Press Distribution.

Trisha Low is the director of membership and development at CLMP (the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) where she cultivates relationships with independent literary publishers and dispenses advice to help them through the business of publishing towards becoming more sustainable.

Brent Cunningham is the operations director for Small Press Distribution, where he has worked since 1999. Along with SPD’s other directors he has helped nearly double sales at the organization over the past decade. He is the author of two books of poetry, Journey to the Sun and Bird & Forest.

Ted Dodson is the author of the chapbook Pop! in Spring. He is the editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter and the books editor for Futurepoem. He also works as the member services and development associate for CLMP.

Laura Moriarty is the deputy director of Small Press Distribution where she has worked since 1999. For more than a decade, she was director of the American Poetry Archives for the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. She is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two novels.