Alan Shapiro has published more than 10 poetry collections, most recently Life Pig(2016); Reel to Reel(2014), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; andNight of the Republic(2012), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize.  In addition, he has written two memoirs—The Last Happy Occasionand Virgil— as well as a novel, Broadway Baby.  He is the recipient of numerous poetry prizes, including two National Endowment of the Arts awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.  Since 1995, Shapiro has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His newest poetry collection, Against Translation,will be published by University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2019.

Mark Rubin has published a book of poems, The Beginning of Responsibility (Owl Creek Press).  His work has appeared in anthologies and journals, including, The Gettysburg Review,The Ohio Review,Prairie Schooner,The Virginia Quarterly Review,and The Yale Review.  He lives, works, and fly fishes in Burlington, Vermont.

Charlotte F. Otten has published poems in diverse journals like the Yale Journal for the Humanities in Medicine, Poems from Aberystwyth,and Southern Humanities Review. She is the editor of A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Cultureand English Women’s Voices, 1540–1700.  Otten has also authored a picture book of poems for children,January Rides the Wind,and The Flying Mouse,a fly-fishing picture book for children.  She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Carolyn Locke is a graduate of Bates College and holds a master’s of fine arts in creative writing from Goddard College. A Maine resident, she is the author of three books, Always This Falling (2010),Not One Thing: Following Matsuo Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior (2013), and The Place We Become (2015).