Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and his work appears in Best American Poetry 2012. He writes about and reviews poetry for The Rumpus, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post. He chairs the English Department at the University of San Francisco.

David Baker is a poet, critic, and editor whose recent books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems, and Never-Ending Birds, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. He is Poetry Editor of Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University.

Kimberly Blaeser, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of three books of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You. She also edited two collections of Ojibwe writing: Stories Migrating Home and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone.

Troy Jollimore is the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, and At Lake Scugog, as well as two books of analytic philosophy. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Poetry. A poetry fellow at the 2012 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, he is also a 2013 Guggenheim fellow.

Julie Carr is the author of five books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence and Sarah-Of Fragments and Lines. RAG is forthcoming. She is also the author of Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry.