George Quasha: (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York. Solo exhibitions of his “axial stones” and “axial drawings” have taken place at the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is also featured in the book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art.

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.