Karin de Weille has published poetry and essays in the Writers Chronicle and elsewhere, presented at numerous literary conferences, and performed in collaboration with musicians and dancers. She currently teaches at Richard Hugo House in Seattle as well as privately.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief (Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry 2001), and A New Hunger (ALA Notable Book Prize). She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and she currently teaches at the Solstice Low Residency MFA at Pine Manor College and at UCSB.

David Jauss is the author of three story collections, including Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories and the AWP Award-winning Black Maps, two volumes of poetry, and On Writing Fiction. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Tim Seibles is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and most recently, Fast Animal, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2012. He is a professor of English at Old Dominion University and visiting faculty for the Stonecoast MFA program.

Robert Vivian is the author of The Tall Grass Trilogy and two books of meditative essays, Cold Snap As Yearning and The Least Cricking Of Evening. His most recent novel is Water And Abandon. He teaches at Alma College and in the low residency MFA program at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.