Michelle Boisseau's books include A Sunday in God-Years and Trembling Air. Her textbook, Writing Poems, in its 8th edition, is coauthored with Hadara Bar-Nadav. She won a 2011 NEA poetry fellowship and is a professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Janet Burroway is author of eight novels including Raw Silk, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand, and textbooks Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing. Her memoir Losing Tim appeared 2014. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at FSU, and winner of the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Florida.

Mark Jarman is the author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems. He has also published two books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Chad Davidson is the author of From the Fire Hills, The Last Predicta, and Consolation Miracle, as well as coauthor with Gregory Fraser of two textbooks, including Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches.

Padma Viswanathan's novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was published in eight countries, and was a finalist for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize. Her second book is The Ever After of Ashwin Rao. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.