Ginger Murchison, editor of the Cortland Review, assisted Thomas Lux in founding Poetry at Tech at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where, since 2009, she has been one of its Visiting McEver Chairs in Poetry. She earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson. Her collection of poems is a scrap of linen, a bone.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief (Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry), and A New Hunger (ALA Notable Book Prize). She has taught at Emerson College and Sarah Lawrence College, and now teaches at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA at Pine Manor College.

Yusef Komunyakaa is author of seventeen collections of poetry. His work has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Wallace Steven's Award. His plays, musical collaborations, and theater art have been performed internationally. His most recent collection is Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker.

Jeremy Bass is a poet, guitarist, and songwriter based in Brooklyn. His latest albums are a set of two EPs entitled Winter Bare and New York in Spring. A recipient of scholarships to the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, his poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications.