Karla Kelsey is author of three volumes of poetry: Knowledge, Forms, The Aviary; Iteration Nets; and A Conjoined Book. Along with editing and writing reviews for the Constant Critic, she is co-editor of SplitLevel Texts. She teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University.

Bin Ramke has had eleven books of poems published, most recently Aerial. He teaches at the University of Denver where for seventeen years he edited the Denver Quarterly. He also teaches fall terms at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sally Keith is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The Fact of the Matter, and is a faculty member of the MFA program at George Mason University.

Brian Teare is the author of four books, most recently Pleasure and Companion Grasses. His poetry has been awarded Stegner, NEA, MacDowell Colony, and American Antiquarian Society Fellowships. An assistant professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he runs Albion Books.

Forrest Gander is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and English literature. Recent books include Eiko & Koma, Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino, and Core Samples from the World, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist.