Andrea Hollander’s first published poem appeared in the Winter 1982 issue of The Georgia Review. Her first full-length poetry collection won the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; her fourth was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her many other honors include two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and creative nonfiction) and two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. After living in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks for thirty-five years, she moved to downtown Portland, Oregon, in 2011.

Gabriella R. Tallmadge is an alumna of the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence program. Her poetry has received a Transitional Artist Residency Award from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, Best New Poets, and other journals.

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University. She is the author of the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets Series, Akashic Books) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editor’s Selection from Bull City Press. Individually, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Felicia Zamora is the author of the forthcoming Body of Render, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Saltman Award (Red Hen Press, 2020); Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017); & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press, 2018); and Instrument of Gaps (Slope Editions, 2018). She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, has authored two chapbooks, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado. Her published works may be found or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, jubilat, Lana Turner, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, West Branch, and others. She is the associate poetry editor for Colorado Review, holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University, and is the education programs manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Cate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Tin House, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. A 2014 Ruth Lilly fellowship finalist, she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences and was recently named one of Narrative’s 30 Under 30 Featured Writers. Lycurgus currently lives south of San Francisco, where she edits interviews for 32 Poems and teaches professional writing to aspiring accountants.

Susan Terris’s most recent books are Take Two: Film Studies (forthcoming in fall 2017) and Memos (2015), both from Omnidawn. She is the author of six books of poetry, sixteen chapbooks, three artist books, and a play; her journal publications include Denver Quarterly and Ploughshares. A poem of hers from FIELD received a Pushcart Prize, and a poem from Memos was selected for Best American Poetry 2015. Terris is editor of Spillway and a poetry editor for Pedestal Magazine.

Kristina Faust is a native of New Jersey living and working in Grand Rapids, MI. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently working on her first book of poetry.

Robert Cording has published eight collections of poems, most recently Only So Far (CavanKerry Press, 2015) and A Word in My Mouth: Selected Spiritual Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2013). He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and two poetry grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as the Nation, the Southern Review, Poetry, the Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker.