Elizabeth Cantwell is a poet and high school teacher living in Claremont, California. Her poetry collection Nights I Let the Tiger Get You (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), was a finalist for the 2012 Hudson Prize. Cantwell is also the author of a chapbook, Premonitions (Grey Book Press, 2014), and has contributed poems to a variety of journals, including PANK, Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, and Missouri Review.

Phillip Sterling’s most recent books are the poetry collection And Then Snow (Main Street Rag) and, as editor, Isle Royale from the AIR: Poems, Stories, and Songs from 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence (Caffeinated Press), both released in 2017. He has served as artist-in-residence for both Isle Royale National Park and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Roxanne Halpine Ward graduated from the MFA program at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro. Her work has appeared in CALYX, Greensboro Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, among others, and her chapbook, This Electric Glow, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2012. She has worked in the medical publishing industry for almost twelve years and lives outside of Philadelphia.

Victoria Chang’s latest poetry collection, OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), was named a New York Times Notable Book and a TIME Best Book of the Year. It also received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award, was longlisted for a National Book Award, and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Her hybrid nonfiction book, Dear Memory, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. She lives in Los Angeles and serves as the program chair of Antioch University’s MFA program.