Cecily Parks is the author of Field Folly Snow, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and O'Nights, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award. She is the editor of The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. She teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity. Cochair of the advisory board of Kundiman, she is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at George Washington University.

Janice N. Harrington has published three books of poetry, including Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Harrington also writes children’s books, most recently Catching a Storyfish. She teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.

Lisa Olstein is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Little Stranger, and a chapbook, The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance. A new book, Late Empire, is forthcoming. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Leila Wilson's The Hundred Grasses was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the recipient of a Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation. She runs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.