Elisabeth Frost is the author of a book of poems, All of Us; a critical study, The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry; and two chapbooks: Rumor and A Theory of the Vowel. She is professor of English at Fordham University, where she edits the Poets Out Loud poetry series from Fordham Press.

Jeanne Heuving is a scholar and writer. Her published books include Incapacity (winner of the 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic), Transducer, and Omissions Are Not Accidents. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Peter Streckfus is the author of Errings, winner of the 2013 POL Editors Prize through Fordham University Press, and The Cuckoo, published in 2004 as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A 2013 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, he teaches at George Mason University.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, The Book of Motion, Mine, and Greenhouses, Lighthouses. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he teaches creative writing and film/media studies.

Sara Michas-Martin, is the winner of the 2013 Poets Out Loud Prize. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he currently teaches at Goddard College and Stanford’s Online Writers’ Studio.