Ravi Shankar is Executive Director of Drunken Boat and the author/editor/publisher of eight books or chapbooks of poetry, including W.W. Norton & Co's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the MIddle East & Beyond. He teaches at CCSU and City University of Hong Kong.

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, a lyric collaboration with John Gallaher; The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, co-edited with Joshua Corey; and a chapbook, Susquehanna. He teaches at Bucknell University and edits West Branch.

Arielle Greenberg is co-author of Home/Birth: A Poemic; author of My Kafka Century and Given; and co-editor of three anthologies, including Gurlesque. She teaches in the University of Tampa MFA and out of her home and writes a column on poetics for the American Poetry Review.

Melissa Tuckey's book Tenuous Chapel was chosen by Charles Simic for the 2012 ABZ First Book Poetry Prize. Her work has been recognized with support from DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Ohio Arts Council, and by the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Marcella Durand’s most recent books are Deep Eco Pre, a collaboration with Tina Darragh; AREA; and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan.