Sandra Meek is the author of five books of poetry, including An Ecology of Elsewhere, Road Scatter, and the Dorset Prize-winning Biogeography, and she is the editor of Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad. A 2011 NEA fellow, Meek served in the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1989–1991.

Brenda Hillman has published nine collections, the most recent of which are Practical Water and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. She is the Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College and is an activist for social and environmental justice.

Sherwin Bitsui is the author of Flood Song and Shapeshift. He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a PEN Open Book Award. He teaches at San Diego State University and the low-residency program in creative writing at IAIA.

Laura-Gray Street is author of Pigment and Fume and coeditor of The Ecopoetry Anthology. Her awards include a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is an associate professor of English and directs the creative writing program at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA.

Marcella Durand’s books include Deep Eco Pre, a collaboration with Tina Darragh; Area; and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan.