Ross White is the director of the Durham, North Carolina-based Bull City Press. He is the author of How We Came Upon the Colony, and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, and the Southern Review, among others. He teaches creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Anne Valente is the author of the novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down, and the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names. Her fiction appears in One Story, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, and the Chicago Tribune. She teaches creative writing at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Anders Carlson-Wee is a 2015 NEA Fellow. He has work in Ploughshares, Narrative, NER, AGNI, Best New Poets, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the author of Dynamite, winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize, and coauthor of Two-Headed Boy, winner of the David Blair Chapbook Prize.

Emilia Phillips is the author of Signaletics, Groundspeed, and three chapbooks. Her poetry appears in Agni, Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She's the assistant professor of creative writing at Centenary College (NJ).

Tiana Clark is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Equilibrium, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University.