Callista Buchen is an associate professor at Franklin College. She is the author of The Bloody Planet and Double-Mouthed and the winner of DIAGRAM's essay prize.

Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay "Nestuary," as well as two poetry chapbooks (City of Bears and The Recent History of Middle Sand Lake). She is a founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs Balancing the Tide: Motherhood and the Arts, an interview project.

Jennifer Givhan is an NEA fellow, PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellow, DASH Literary Journal Poetry Prize winner, Blue Mesa Review Poetry second-prize winner, and Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist. She teaches at Western New Mexico University and the Rooster Moans Poetry Coop.

Martha Silano is the author of four collections of poetry: Reckless Lovely, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, Blue Positive, and What the Truth Tastes Like. Silano serves as poetry editor at Crab Creek Review and teaches at Bellevue College.

Rachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. She is the author of two poetry collections, Copperhead and Canticle in the Fish's Belly (forthcoming).