Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in over thirty-five magazines and anthologies both literary and speculative. She curates the annual Art & Words Show, an inspiration-based collaborative project. She works as marketing manager for a university press.

Evan Klavon's poems and translations can be found at Ink Node, DIAGRAM, Pacifica Literary Review, Circumference: Poetry in Translation, and Linebreak. He is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of twenty books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. She holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska and has received an Academy of American Poets Award and the Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship.

Karen Bovenmyer holds an MFA in creative writing: popular fiction from the University of Southern Maine (S13) and has published science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction and poems. She teaches and mentors students at Iowa State University.

Bruce Bond is the author of fifteen books including, most recently, For the Lost Cathedral and The Other Sky. Forthcoming are three books of poetry, plus a book on poetics entitled Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand.