Brian Brodeur is author of the poetry books Natural Causes and Other Latitudes, and the chapbooks Local Fauna and So the Night Cannot Go On Without Us. He is assistant professor of English at Indiana University East.

Cornelius Eady is the author of eight poetry collections including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize, and Brutal Imagination. He holds the Miller Chair at the University of Missouri and is cofounder of Cave Canem.

David Kirby's collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His latest poetry collection is Get Up, Please.

Nickole Brown’s books include Sister and Fanny Says. She received her MFA from VCFA and she was an editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. An editor for the Marie Alexander Series, she teaches at the Writing Workshops in Greece and Murray State's low-residency creative writing program.

Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men won the Paterson Prize. Her fourth book, Facts About the Moon, won the Oregon Book Award. She teaches for the program in creative writing at North Carolina State University and she is founding faculty of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program.