Bob Perelman: has written three books of criticism, most recently Modernism the Morning After (University of Alabama, 2017). He was a Professor until 2016 and is now retired in Berkeley. He has written numerous books of poetry, most recently Jack and Jill in Troy (2019).

Michael Palma: is the recipient of the Italo Calvino Prize for his translation of My Name on the Wind: Selected Poems of Diego Valeri and of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for his translation of The Man I Pretend to Be: “The Colloquies” and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano. He has published four collections of verse: The Egg Shape, Antibodies, A Fortune in Gold, and Begin in Gladness, and an online chapbook, The Ghost of Congress Street, and a fully rhymed translation of Dante’s Inferno.

C. S. Nelson: received his M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence University after a successful career as an actor. He has most recently published in The Gallatin Review, The River Review, and Oberon. His first book of poems, The Book of Clay garnered high praise from The Kirkus Review.