John Hoppenthaler's books of poetry are Lives of Water, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir, and the forthcoming Domestic Garden. He has also co-edited Jean Valentine: This-World Company. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University.

Nickole Brown’s books include Sister: A Novel-in-Poems and Fanny Says. She was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson and worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. Currently, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Series and teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

James Harms is the author of eight books of poetry including, most recently, Comet Scar and What to Borrow, What to Steal. His awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes. He teaches in the MFA Program at West Virginia University.

Carol Frost's poetry appears in four Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her books include Honeycomb, Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems, Pure, and the Queen's Desertion. Her newest collection, Trilogy, will be published in 2014. She is the Alfond Professor of English at Rollins College.

Sasha Pimentel is author of Insides She Swallowed, winner of the 2011 American Book Award. She directs the undergraduate studies in creative writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso and is an assistant professor of poetry in their bilingual MFA program on the border of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.