Susanna Childress's first book, Jagged with Love, was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her second book, Entering the House of Awe, was published by New Issues Press and won the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award. She also writes short fiction and nonfiction and she teaches at Hope College.

Sandra Alcosser’s A Fish to Feed All Hunger and Except by Nature were selected for National Poetry Series, AWP prize for poetry, and  the James Laughlin award from Academy of American Poets. Montana’s first poet laureate and poet-in-residence for Poets House Language of Conservation, she teaches at SDSU and Pacific Universities.

Jane Springer is the author of two collections of poetry, Dear Blackbird and Murder Ballad; her awards include a Pushcart, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers' Award. She currently teaches English and Creative Writing at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

Darin Ciccotelli has published poems in Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Kenyon Review, VOLT, and ZYZZYVA. He was the managing editor of Gulf Coast and he currently teaches at Soka University of America.

Georgia A. Popoff is a poet, educator, and managing editor of Comstock Review. In schools and community, she provides professional development and writing residencies throughout New York State and she is the U.S. Workshops coordinator for the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center. She has three books and one chapbook.