Miho Nonaka: is a bilingual poet from Tokyo. She is the author of The Museum of Small Bones (Ashland Poetry Press, 2020) and the Japanese translator of Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris (KADOKAWA, 2021). Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Southern Review, Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans. She teaches literature and creative writing at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

Antonio Machado: (1875—1939) Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of ’98. His work, initially modernist, evolved towards an intimate form of symbolism with romantic traits.

Tony Kitt: lives in Dublin, Ireland. His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, in the Pitt series, in 2022. His chapbook, The Magic Phlute, was published by SurVision Books in 2019, and another chapbook, Further Through Time, by Origami Poems Project in 2022. He edited the anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war in English translation entitled Invasion (SurVision Books, 2022).

Basil King: born London, England 1935. At age 12 he left England just after seeing van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Marriage” and Turner’s last paintings. He wondered how they did them. At 13 he began to paint. At 16 he went to Black Mountain College. At 17 he met Pollock. Today he is writing and painting and still full of his original wonder.”