James Allen Hall's book of poems, Now You're the Enemy, won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. A recent NEA fellow, new work appears in Best American Poetry 2012, American Poetry Review, Bloom, and Arts & Letters.

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.

Sarah Blake is the author of Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, and others. She was awarded an NEA Fellowship for poetry in 2013. She is cofounder of Submittrs and The Philadelphia Poetry Collaboration.

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including most recently The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, and Stateside. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.

Gary Jackson is author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, the Laurel Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. As of fall 2013, he teaches at the College of Charleston.