Carey Salerno is the executive editor of Alice James Books. She is the editor, along with Anne Marie Macari, of the anthology Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books. Her first book was Shelter. You may find her poems in print and online.

Dean Young is the author of fourteen books, including Fall Higher, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, and Elegy on Toy Piano. His work has been honored as finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Poetry Prize, and his most recent collection, Bender: New and Selected, was on the Los Angeles Times’ Best of 2012 list. He is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas in Austin.

Kazim Ali is a poet, translator, essayist, and fiction writer. His books include Sky Ward, Bright Felon, and Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence. He is associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College.

Claudia Keelan is the author of seven books of poetry, including Utopic and the recently published verse-drama O, Heart. Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley award and the Jerome Shestack Prize. She is director of creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she edits Interim.

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of three books, most recently To Keep Love Blurry: Poems and Cradle Book: Stories and Fables. He works as director of digital operations at Publishers Weekly, has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and teaches at NYU and the New School.