Laren McClung is the author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain. She has led yearlong workshops at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She currently teaches at New York University.

Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She received her MFA from New York University and is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Poets & Writers, and Poets House.

Philip Metres is the author of a number of books and chapbooks, including Sand Opera, Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties, A Concordance of Leaves, abu ghraib arias, and To See the Earth. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, has garnered two NEAs and the Creative Workforce Fellowship.

Monica Sok is a Khmer poet from Lancaster, PA. Sok has received scholarships from Kundiman, Squaw Valley, Napa Valley, and Bread Loaf writers' conferences. She holds an MFA from NYU. Her poems appear in Narrative, Crab Orchard Review, and Ninth Letter, among others.

Nguyen Phan Que Mai