Jo McDougall is the author of five books and two chapbooks of poetry; her most recent publications include In the Home of the Famous Dead: Collected Poems (2015) and a memoir, Daddy’s Money (2011), both from the University of Arkansas Press. The winner of awards from the DeWitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Porter Prize Fund, among others, McDougall has a new collection slated for publication in 2016 by Tavern Books.

David Baker’s new book of poems, Whale Fall, will be published in July 2022 by W. W. Norton. Other poems have appeared lately in American Poetry Review, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and others. He lives in Granville, Ohio.