Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s projects include the fine-press poetry guidebook A Pocket Book of Forms. The recipient of a 2015 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, she is editor of Ecotone and Lookout Books, and she teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington.

Kim Addonizio's latest books are The Palace of Illusions (stories) and My Black Angel: Blues Poems & Portraits. She is the author of five other poetry collections, two novels, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius.

Annie Finch’s most recent books of poetry and poetics are A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry, Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, and Spells: New and Selected Poems. She directs PoetCraft Circles, an online community centering on poetic form.

Timothy Steele is the author of several collections of poems, including Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems, The Color Wheel, and Toward the Winter Solstice. He has also published books and essays about poetry and literary history.