Wendy Call wrote the nonfiction book No Word for Welcome and coedited the craft anthology Telling True Stories. She is a 2015 NEA Fellow in Poetry Translation and she has been writer in residence at 22 institutions, including five national parks. She teaches writing at Pacific Lutheran University.

Alison Mandaville is a poet, scholar, and educator. She coedited and translated the anthology Poetry by Women in Azerbaijan: Classical to Soviet and received a Fulbright scholar award to Azerbaijan in 2007–8 and a UNESCO heritage grant for translation. She teaches English at Fresno State University.

Peter Crume is an assistant professor of deaf studies at Fresno State University. An expert in interpretation and ASL/English bilingualism, he taught at a school for the deaf in Kenya, and writes and presents on the relationship between sign language and literacy, especially narrative understanding.

Cecilia Martinez-Gil is a poet, translator, and former journalist from Uruguay. Her award-winning poetry collection, Psaltery and Serpentines, includes poems translated from her Spanish collection. She teaches English and Latin American literatures (in English and Spanish) at Santa Monica College.

John Oliver Simon is a poet, a distinguished translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, and a master poet-teacher. He is a board member of California Poets in the Schools, where he has worked since 1971, and he was the 2013 River of Words Teacher of the Year.