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.

Stanley Plumly's most recent collection of poems is Orphan Hours. He is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Rosanna Warren teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her books include Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry and Ghost in a Red Hat (poems). She received the Award of Merit in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Once and Halflife. She was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Radcliffe Fellowship, among other prizes. She teaches at Princeton and New York University.