Ma Yongbo: was born in Yichun, Heilongjiang in 1964, Ph.D. He has published over seventy original works and translations since 1986. He is also a leading scholar in Anglo–American postmodernist poetry, with his studies focused on Chinese and Western modern poetics, post–modern literature, eco–criticism. He is the Chinese translator of Dickinson, Whitman, Stevens, Pound, Williams, Ashbery, and Moby Dick. Currently, he is a professor and editor at the Faculty of Arts and Literature at Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

David Wyatt: has published poems in ABZ, Prairie Schooner, Mudfish, Poetry East, The Georgia Review, and The Café Review. He has published two books with WSC Press, Gathering Place and Evening All of a Sudden. He was awarded the inaugural Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, by The Georgia Review, in 2013. For 15 years he was an assistant editor at The Backwaters Press, before it became an imprint of University of Nebraska Press.

Terence Winch: is the author of nine poetry collections, the most recent of which is That Ship Has Sailed (Pitt Poetry Series, 2023). A Columbia Book Award and American Book Award winner, he has also written two story collections, Contenders and That Special Place, the latter of which draws on his experiences as a founding member of the original Celtic Thunder, the acclaimed Irish band. His work is included in more than 50 anthologies, among them the Oxford Book of American Poetry, Poetry 180, and 6 editions of Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in poetry, a Fund for Poetry grant, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing, among other honors.

Carol Townsend: is a professor emerita of the Art & Design Department at Buffalo State University where she both taught and served as chair. Her poems have appeared in the journals Voices de la Luna, Sow’s Ear, and The Healing Muse, in the Buffalo News, and on the Master Poetry Ink website. Her poem, “Nest” was selected for the public art project, “BufLit:On the Move,” sponsored by Just Buffalo Literary Center and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. She is the author of the chapbook, A Cinder in My Knee and the full length book, The Color of Shadows.