Eric Pankey is the author of ten collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, and Gettysburg Review, as well as numerous anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2011.

Anzhelina Polonskaya numerous books of her poetry have been published in Russia. Two English version of her books are A Voice and Paul Klee’s Boat. Polonskaya’s work has been translated into Dutch, Slovenian, Latvian, Spanish and other languages.

Nadine Pinede is author of a poetry chapbook, An Invisible Geography, and her fiction was included in Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat.

Greg Miller is a prolific scholar and poet, publishing numerous articles and monographs, five books of poetry, and winning several prestigious poetry prizes and fellowships.

Rachel Tzvia Back is a poet, translator and senior lecturer of literature living in the Galilee. Her translations include In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner and With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest.