Kristin George Bagdanov recently earned her MFA in poetry at Colorado State University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Davis. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine.

Matthew Cooperman is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently, Spool, and the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World. A copoetry editor of Colorado Review, he is professor of English at Colorado State University.

Angela Hume is the author of the poetry collection Middle Time, along with three poetry chapbooks, Melos, The Middle, and Second Story of Your Body. She is a doctoral candidate in English at University of California, Davis.

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

Rusty Morrison's books of poetry are Beyond the Chainlink; After Urgency, which won the Dorset Prize; Book of the Given; the true keeps calm biding its story, which won the Sawtooth Prize, Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin prize, Northern California Book Award, and Alice Fay Di Castagnola from the Poetry Society of America; and Whethering, which won the Colorado Prize. She is copublisher of Omnidawn.