Vijay Seshadri: with a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Columbia University, he is the author of Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The Disappearances (New and Selected Poems, Harper Collins, India), and 3 Sections (September, 2013). He is a former editor at The New Yorker, essayist and book reviewer at The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies. He is the recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, James Laughlin Prize of the Academy of American Poets, and The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize. He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

James H. Schneider: has published poems in online and print journals, including Verse Wisconsin, Abraxas #49, Third Wednesday, Amsterdam Quarterly, and Mobius magazine. A recent poem of his was read on Maine Public Radio’s “Poems from Here” series. He is a retired lawyer and lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife.

Michael Salcman: is a retired physician and teacher of art history. He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. He is a child of the Holocaust and a survivor of polio. His poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, New Letters, and Poet Lore. His books include The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises), The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises), Poetry in Medicine, (Persea Books, 2015), and A Prague Spring, Before & After (2016), winner of the 2015 Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press. Shades & Graces, forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil (2020) won the inaugural Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize.

Masaya Saito: is a poet and translator who grew up in Akita, in northern Japan. In 1993, The Kobe Hotel, his translation of Saito Sanki’s memoirs and haiku, was published by Weatherhill. In 2007, he received the tenth Asahi Haiku Shinjin Award for his 50 Japanese haiku sequence, Gassho (Hands together in Prayer). In 2016, he published Snow Bones, a narrative collection of haiku in English. His most recent works include the translations of Tomita Moppo’s haiku, which appeared in the Autumn 2019 issue of Modern Haiku. English–Language Haiku 2019. He lives in Tokyo.