Christopher Seid: has published two books of poetry, Prayers to the Other Life and Age of Exploration. He makes his living as a freelance writer and divides his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and South Portland, Maine.

Anele Rubin: has had poems in New Ohio Review, Cutthroat, Rattle, Raleigh Review, Mudfish, Chattahoochee Review, Miramar, and in many other places. Her poetry collection Trying to Speak was published by Kent State University Press. She currently lives in upstate New York.

Wang Ping: is a poet, novelist, and artist, born in 1957 in Shanghai, China during the Cultural Revolution. She earned a BA in English from Beijing University and a PhD in comparative literature from New York University in 1999. Her poetry collections include Ten Thousand Waves (Wings Press, 2014) and The Magic Whip (Coffee House Press, 2003). Her nonfiction book Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) won the Eugene Kayden Award for the Best Book in Humanities. She is professor of English at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Hilton Obenzinger: writes poetry, fiction, history, and cultural criticism. He is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). His other books include the autobiographical novel Busy Dying, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco, New York on Fire, and This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem, which received the American Book Award. He has taught writing and American studies at Stanford University, and is currently Associate Director of The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.