Frances McCue is a poet, prose writer, and Arts Instigator. The Founding Director of Richard Hugo House from 1996-2006, she is the author of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs (about Richard Hugo) and two poetry collections, The Bled and The Stenographer's Breakfast.

Stephen Corey is the editor of the Georgia Review, with which he has worked in various roles since 1983. He is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently There Is No Finished World. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a range of periodicals since 1975.

Gary Thompson studied with Richard Hugo, and later taught in the writing program at CSU, Chico. His books of poems include One Thing After Another, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, and On John Muir's Trail. As co-editor of Cedar House Books, he published Ripley Hugo's On the Right Wind in 2008.

Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. Author of four volumes of poetry, Her latest book is Sunday Rising. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Slate, Stand, and the Galway Review.

M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine & Sioux, holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. Her collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published in 2005. She most recently co-edited an anthology of human rights poetry, I Go to the Ruined Place.