James Reidel: is the author of the poetry collections Jim’s Book (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) and My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg (Black Lawrence Press, 2006). He wrote the definitive and only biography on Weldon Kees, Vanished Act: The Life and Work of Weldon Kees (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). He received a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship in 2009. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The New Criterion, and The Adirondack Review.

Matt Miller: is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He is the winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro–fiction Prize, and Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize.

Henry Israeli: his most recent poetry collections are Our Age of Anxiety (White Pine Poetry Prize, 2019), and god’s breath hovering across the waters, (Four Way Books, 2016), and as editor, Lords of Misrule: 20 Years of Saturnalia Books (Saturnalia, 2022). He is the translator of three critically acclaimed books by Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku and is the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books. He teaches in the English & Philosophy Department of Drexel University.

Oz Hardwick: is a European poet, photographer, occasional musician, and accidental academic, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. His most recent publication is the chapbook My Life as a Time Traveller (Hedgehog, 2023). He is professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University.