Erika T. Wurth, Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee, is the author of the forthcoming novel Crazyhorse's Girlfriend and the collection of poetry Indian Trains (2007). Her work has appeared in numerous journals. She teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and she was a guest writer at IAIA.

M.L. Smoker, Assiniboine and Sioux, holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. Her collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published in 2005. She most recently co-edited an anthology of human rights poetry, I Go to the Ruined Place.

Marianne Aweagon Broyles is the author of a poetry collection, The Red Window. Her poems have also appeared in the Florida Review, As/Us, and Poets of the American West. A psychiatric nurse, she is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Layli Long Soldier has served as contributing editor to Drunken Boat. Recent poems appear in the American Poet, the American Reader, and the Kenyon Review Online. Her first chapbook is Chromosomory.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa. She studied poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She is member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.