Eric Pankey is the author of fifteen collections of poetry and a collection of essays. His work has been supported by two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is Professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University where he teaches in the BFA and MFA programs in creative writing.

Jennifer Atkinson is the author of six collections of poetry—most recently A Gray Realm the Ocean, which won the 2021 Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press. She is newly retired from George Mason University, where she taught in the MFA and BFA programs in Poetry Writing. She lives in northern Virginia.

Jennifer Grotz is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Window Left Open. Also a translator from the French and Polish, her most recent translation is Rochester Knockings, a novel by Tunisian-born writer Hubert Haddad.

Elizabeth Robinson is the award-winning author of several collections of poetry, most recently Counterpart and Blue Heron. Currently she works as a court advocate for homeless people in Boulder, Colorado.

Donna Stonecipher’s poems are published widely and translated into French, German, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, and Dutch. She won the National Poetry Series and the Contemporary Poetry Series competitions, and is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships.