Tina Chang is the Brooklyn poet laureate. Author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers, she is also co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond.

Arthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry, including Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, and The Redshifting Web. He received the 2013 Jackson Poetry Prize. A professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts, he is also a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, in 1954, and came to America as a small child. He is the author of four collections of poems: Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, 3 Sections, and The Disappearances, and many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments.