Sholeh Wolpé's publications include three collections of poetry, most recently, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, an award-winning book of translations, Sin, and three anthologies. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA program.

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.

Stanley Moss’s most recent collection of poems is No Tear is Commonplace (2013). In 1977, he founded the Sheep Meadow Press.

Robert Stewart is editor of New Letters, New Letters on the Air radio series, and BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is author of Outside Language, essays, and Plumbers, poems. In 2008, he won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence in the essay category.