Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. He is a PhD student at the University of Chicago, and the 2016–2017 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.

Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections LA Liminal and Empire Wasted, as well as several chapbooks. She was a founding editor of Switchback Books and is coeditor of Electric Gurlesque.

Sam Taylor is the author of two books of poems, Body of the World and Nude Descending an Empire, as well as a recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the director of the creative writing program at Wichita State University.

Farid Matuk

Laura Jaramillo