Rebecca Foust's third book, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry. Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and has received fellowships from the Frost Place, MacDowell, and Sewanee. She is the poetry editor for Women's Voices for Change and an assistant editor for Narrative.

Wendy Barker is the author of six books of poetry and four chapbooks. Recipient of NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, she has also published a selection of cotranslated poems by Rabindranath Tagore, as well as a selection of poems with accompanying drafts and essays. She teaches at UT San Antonio.

Toi Derricotte's most recent book is the Undertaker's Daughter. Her honors include the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement and the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review and the Paris Review. She cofounded Cave Canem in 1996.

Natalia Trevino is the author of Lavando La Dirty Laundry. She is an associate professor of English at Northwest Vista College and member of the Macondo Workshop. 

Lorna Dee Cervantes