Owen Lewis is the winner of the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry & Medicine andthe 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. He is professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the author of four poetry collections: March in San Miguel, Sometimes Full of Daylight, Best Man, and the forthcoming Marriage Map.

Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of She Has a Name, a finalist for the Lambda Award and the Audre Lorde Award. A Pushcart Prize winner, Moon was also selected as a PSA New American Poet. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Moon holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Kate Daniels is the author of four volumes of poetry, and professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Vanderbilt University. She also teaches writing at the Washington (DC) Center for Psychoanalysis. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013–14.

Pranav Nanda is a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University. His work has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. He hopes writing will continue to help him develop the skills of reflection, interpretation, and empathy central to being an effective physician.