Midge Raymond is author of Forgetting English, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, and the nonfiction books Everyday Writing and Everyday Book Marketing. She has taught at Boston University, Grub Street, and Richard Hugo House.

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of four poetry collections, including Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room and Hourglass Museum, forthcoming in 2014. She is the editor of Crab Creek Review and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Wendy Call wrote No Word for Welcome (Grub Street National Book Prize / Nonfiction), and co-edited Telling True Stories. Her current projects include audio translations of multilingual poetry and digital text/audio essays.

Janna Cawrse Esarey is author of the memoir The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife. A 2008 Jack Straw Writer, she has taught at Richard Hugo House, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Whidbey Island Writers Conference.

Susan Rich is author of four books of poetry, including Cloud Pharmacy and The Alchemist’s Kitchen, and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders. A recipient of awards from the Times Literary Supplement and Fulbright Foundation, she teaches at Highline Community College