Richard Taylor: is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non–fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Robert Sheppard: was born in 1955 and was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, MA, and PhD). In 1996 he moved from London to Liverpool to teach at Edge Hill University as Professor of Poetry and Poetics and Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Writing. In 1996, he became Emeritus Professor at Edge Hill.

Larry Sawyer: is the author of Vertigo Diary (BlazeVox) and Unable to Fully California (Otoliths Press). He has curated the Myopic Books Poetry Series in Wicker Park, Chicago since 2005. He also edits the online magazine milk and is a past editor of Nexus literary magazine. His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in Chicago Tribune, The Prague Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, Miami Sun Post, Van Gogh’s Ear, and elsewhere.

Peter Robinson: his 2020 books are Bonjour Mr Inshaw (Two Rivers Press) and Poetry & Money: A Speculation (Liverpool University Press). In 2021 Shearsman Books will publish The Personal Art: Essays, Reviews & Memoirs and Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work edited by Tom Phillips. He is a professor at Reading University (UK) and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press.