Kaveh Bassiri was the recipient of a Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency and Walton Translation Fellowship. His poetry won the Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award and was published in Best New Poets 2011, Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Mississippi Review.

Geoffrey Brock is a poet and a translator of Italian poetry and prose. He's the author of Weighing Light: Poems (2005), the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (2012), and the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (2002). He teaches at Arkansas.

Sidney Wade’s sixth collection, Straits & Narrows, was published in April 2013. She has served as President of AWP and Secretary/Treasurer of ALTA and teaches workshops in Poetry and Translation at the University of Florida’s MFA@FLA program. She is the poetry editor of Subtropics.

Susan Briante is the author of two collections of poetry, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Arizona.

Roger Sedarat is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic and Ghazal Games, as well as a chapbook, From Tehran to Texas. A translator of classical and modern Persian poetry, he teaches creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.