Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He coedited Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is a professor at Bennington College and the editor of Bennington Review.

John Freeman is author of How to Read a Novelist and editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual. His other books include The Tyranny of E-mail and Tales of Two Cities. Former editor of Granta, he lives in New York now and teaches at the New School. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of A Public Space and a contributing editor at Graywolf Press.

Uzoamaka Maduka is the cofounder and editor in chief of The American Reader. She has twice been named as one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" and is one of Business Insider's "Most Innovative People Under 40."

Wayne Miller's most recent books are the poetry collection Post-, a translation of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac, and the essay collection Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (coedited with Travis Kurowski and Kevin Prufer). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.