Jennifer Givhan is an NEA fellow, PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellow, DASH Literary Journal Poetry Prize winner, Blue Mesa Review Poetry second-prize winner, and Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. She teaches at Western New Mexico University and the Rooster Moans Poetry Coop.

Debra Allbery's most recent collection of poetry is Fimbul-Winter. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry, Field, New England Review, and elsewhere. She directs the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, NC.

A. Van Jordan is the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University-Newark.

Caroline Mei-Lin Mar is a high school teacher, teacher coach, and poet. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, and she is an alumna of the Voices at VONA workshop.

Adrienne Perry earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2013 and is a PhD student in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. She serves as the current editor of Gulf Coast and is a Kimbilio Fellow.