Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author Little Murders Everywhere, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and The Spokes of Venus. The recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, she teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits Memorious magazine.

Laura Kasischke has published nine novels and eight collections of poetry. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book is The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is a poetry editor for Boston Review and chair of Columbia University's Writing Program.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of seven volumes of poems, including Louise in Love, The Bride of E, and Elegy. Her most recent books are a translation of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, and The Last Two Seconds. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Martha Collins's most recent book of poems is Admit One: An American Scrapbook. She has also published seven earlier poetry collections and three cotranslated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. She is editor at large for FIELD magazine and an editor for the Oberlin College Press.