Tonaya Craft Thompson is the managing editor at Copper Canyon Press. She was a senior editor at Tin House, fiction editor for the handmade literary journal Filter, and earned an MFA in poetry from the Writing Seminars at Bennington college.

Natalie Diaz is Mojave and Pima. She was awarded 2012 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship, a 2012 Lannan Residency, and a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published in June 2012.

Roger Reeves, awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, has poems in or forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House. His first book, King Me, is forthcoming.

Kerry James Evans served six years in the Army National Guard as a Combat Engineer. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and he is enrolled in the PhD program in English-Creative Writing from Florida State University.

James Arthur is the author of the poetry collection Charms Against Lightning. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. He is an assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.