David Baker is a poet, critic, and editor whose recent books include Scavenger Loop (poems), Show Me Your Environment (essays), and Never-Ending Birds, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. He is poetry editor of Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University.

Kimiko Hahn, author of nine poetry collections, finds material from disparate sources—whether black lung disease, the Japanese form zuihitsu, or science as in brain fever. Awards include a Guggenheim. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, CUNY.

Solmaz Sharif is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. A 2011 winner of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Black Warrior Review, and others.

Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry, They Are Sleeping, Circadian, Raptus, and, most recently, Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy. She has received awards and fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.