Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of From Old Notebooks and Avatar, the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, the founding editor of Noemi Press, and an assistant professor in the MFA program at New Mexico State University.

Sandy Florian is the author of five books of prose-poetry.

Carolina Ebeid received 2015-2016 NEA Fellowship, and awards from the Stadler Center, CantoMundo, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center, and is a doctoral student at the University of Denver. You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior is her first poetry collection.

Ryo Yamaguchi is the author of the poetry collection The Refusal of Suitors. His poetry has appeared in journals such as the Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and the Journal, among others, and he also regularly reviews books for various outlets. He works at the University of Chicago Press.

Gabriel Blackwell is the author of four books of prose, the most recent of which is Madeleine E., a commonplace book. He is the editor of the Collagist, and teaches writing at the University of West Florida.