Charles Harper Webb's latest books of poetry are Brain Camp, What Things Are Made Of, and Shadow Ball: New & Selected. Editor of Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology, Webb has received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as Whiting and Guggenheim fellowships. He teaches at CSU, Long Beach.

Arthur Vogelsang has an MA from Johns Hopkins and an MFA from Iowa Writers Workshop. He was the editor The American Poetry Review from 1973–2006. He has three NEA fellowships. His books include Cities and Towns, which won the Juniper Prize, Expedition: New and Selected Poems, and Twentieth Century Women Contemporary Poets Series. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry and he has won Pushcart Prizes.

David Hernandez is the author of four poetry collections, including Dear, Sincerely. His awards include an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. David teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach and California State University, Fullerton.

Colleen J. McElroy, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has published nine collections of poems, including Here I Throw Down My Heart, a finalist for the Milton Kessler Award and the Phillis Wheatley Award. McElroy received the 1985 Before Columbus American Book Award.

Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Cormorant Hunter's Wife and Hyperboreal. She's a faculty mentor with the low-residency MFA in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.