Tony Barnstone is a professor of English at Whittier College. His newest book is Pulp Sonnets and Beast in the Apartment. He is the author of seventeen other books and the CD Tokyo's Burning. His has earned awards from the NEA and NEH, as well as the Poets Prize, the John Ciardi Prize, the Benjamin Saltman Award, and others.

Ming Di is the author of six books of poetry in Chinese and four books in translation including River Merchant's Wife. She edited and cotranslated New Cathay-Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Book of Cranes, and Empty Chairs-Poems by Liu Xia. She received a fellowship from the Luce Foundation and a translation award from Poetry Foundation.

Mark Allan Bender is department chair and professor of Chinese literature and folklore in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. His research interests include oral tradition and contemporary poetry in China and nearby areas of Asia.

Jonathan Skinner founded the journal ecopoetics. In addition to numerous ecocritical essays on postwar poetry, his publications include the poetry collections Chip Calls, Birds of Tifft, Warblers, and Political Cactus Poems. He teaches in the writing program at the University of Warwick.