Orlando Ricardo Menes is professor of English in the University of Notre Dame's creative writing program. His fifth poetry title is Heresies, and he is also the author of Fetish and Furia. He was an NEA Poetry Fellow in 2009.

Don Bogen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently An Algebra, and the translator of Europa: Selected Poems of Julio Martinez Mesanza. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati and serves as poetry editor of the Cincinnati Review.

Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God. Her essays have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Partisan Review, A Public Space, and the Wilson Quarterly. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago and is a contributing editor at A Public Space.

Ae Hee Lee was born in South Korea but lived in Peru for fourteen years. She is currently a candidate at the MFA poetry program at the University of Notre Dame and works as a graduate assistant for Letras Latinas in the university's Institute of Latino Studies.

Alethea Tusher is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Her poetry explores the surreal in domestic spaces. She is currently interested in translating Polish poets, and in figuring out how one's own voice relates to or influences the voice of the poet being translated.