Meg Eden's work has been published in various magazines, including Rattle, Drunken Boat, Eleven Eleven, and Gargoyle. Her poem "Rumiko" won the 2015 Ian MacMillan award for poetry, and she has four poetry chapbooks in print. She teaches at the University of Maryland.

Diane Scholl is professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Ruminate, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cider Press Review, as well as The Cresset
and other places.

Simon Perchik's poetry has appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker and elsewhere.

Jae Newman teaches writing courses at Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary. His work has been nominated for a Push Cart Prize and appeared in many journals and magazines. His first collection of poems, Collage of Seoul, was published in 2015 by Cascade Books.

Katie Manning is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman. She has received The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Whale Road Review.

Nathaniel Lee Hansen's chapbook, Four Seasons West of the 95th Meridian, was published by Spoon River Poetry Press (2014). His work has appeared in Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, Driftwood Press, and Whitefish Review, among others. His website is plainswriter.com, and he can be followed on Twitter @plainswriter.