Michael Wiegers is the editor in chief of Copper Canyon Press, and the poetry editor of Narrative magazine. The editor of What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford, he translates poetry from Spanish and has edited books from around the globe by poets at every stage in their careers.

Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. His first book, Crush, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. He is a recipient of two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Residency Fellowships, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Laura Kasischke has published nine novels and eight collections of poetry. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Roger Reeves was awarded a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House. His first book is King Me.