Donald Revell is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently Tantivy and The Bitter Withy. He has also published five volumes of translations from the French, including works by Apollinaire, Laforgue, and Rimbaud.

Joshua Corey is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Barons, and a novel, Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy. He is an associate professor of English at Lake Forest College.

Claudia Keelan is the author of seven books of poetry, including Utopic and the recently published verse-drama O, Heart. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley award and the Jerome Shestack Prize. She is director of creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she edits Interim.

Cole Swensen is the author of fourteen books of poetry and a book of critical essays, and the co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid. A 2007 Guggenheim fellow, she is also a translator, and won the 2004 PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. She teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poems, most recently Circle's Apprentice, and two collection of prose, A Whaler's Dictionary and Wonderful Investigations. He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University.