Allison Campbell is associate editor for the Mississippi Review and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. She is currently at work on a collection of poems, individual pieces of which have appeared in Witness, Armchair/Shotgun, and Harpur Palate.

Cole Swensen is the author of fourteen books of poetry and a book of critical essays, and the co-editor of the anthology American Hybrid. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also a translator and won the 2004 PEN/USA Award in Translation. She teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University.

Timothy Liu is the author of ten books of poems, including the forthcoming Don't Go Back To Sleep and Let It Ride, as well as a hybrid novel, Kingdom Come. He is a Professor of English at William Paterson University.

Bianca Stone, the author of several poetry chapbooks, is the illustrator of Antigonick, a collaboration with Anne Carson. Her first full-length collection of poetry Someone Else’s Wedding Vows is forthcoming from Tin House/Octopus Books.

Brandon Downing is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon (2005), and Mellow Actions (2013). Lake Antiquity, a monograph of poetic collages from 1996-2008, was released in 2010.