Ross Gay's books of poetry are Bringing the Shovel Down, Against Which, and the forthcoming Two Gardens, cowritten with Aimee Nezhukumatathil. He teaches poetry at Indiana University and in Drew University's low-residency MFA program.

Nickole Brown’s books include Sister and Fanny Says. She received her MFA from VCFA and she was an editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She is editor for the Marie Alexander Series and teaches at Murray State University's low-residency MFA program.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam and Register of Eliminated Villages. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize and a GLCA New Writers' Award. She is the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Michigan and codirector of Organic Weapon Arts.

Layla Long Soldier has a BFA from Institute of American Indian Arts and MFA from Bard College. Her poems appear in the American Poet, the American Reader, the Kenyon Review Online, PEN America, and the Brooklyn Rail. She is adjunct faculty at Diné College on the Navajo Nation. Her chapbook is Chromosomory; Whereas is forthcoming.

Jamaal May is a Kenyon Review Fellow and author of Hum, recipient of the American Library Association's Notable Book Award and an NAACP Image Award Nomination. Individual poems appear from NYTimes.com, the Believer, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He codirects Organic Weapon Arts.