Kieran Fionn Murphy: grew up in N.Y. and now lives in Dingle, Ireland with his family, where he co–founded Murphys Ice Cream. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in creative writing at University College Cork and hasn’t yet mended the folly of his ways.

Dan Murphy: received a Master’s degree in English at California State University at Northridge. He has worked as a public school teacher in Los Angeles for many years. He has been published in Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, Spillway, Image, Los Angeles Review, Cortland Review, North American Review, and many others. His chapbook, The Book of False Rhyme, was published by Finishing Line Press. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Geraldine Monk: is a British poet, born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Since the late 1970s, she has published many collections of poetry and has recorded her poetry in collaboration with musicians. Her major collections include Escafeld Hangings, West House Books 2005 and Interregnum, Creation Books 1995., Her Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing. Her latest book They Who Saw the Deep was published in 2016 in the United States by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions. She is an affiliated poet to The Centre for Poetry and Poetics, University of Sheffield.

David McCann: taught Classical Japanese language and literature at Cornell University and Korean literature at Cornell and Harvard. He has published 32 books. His translations of Korean poetry have been published by Columbia University Press, Princeton University Press, Quarterly Review of Literature, and other presses. Eleven books of his own poems have been published, including a dual–language edition of his sijo poems, Urban Temple.