Leslie Harrison's second book, The Book of Endings (U of Akron, 2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Her first book, Displacement (Mariner, 2009) won the Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A former Roth Resident at Bucknell, she has recent poems in West Branch, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Orion and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore.

Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of two collections of poetry, Lake Effect (Aldrich Press, 2013) and Animal Bride (Tinderbox Editions, Fall 2018). Her work has appeared in Blackbird, RHINO, cream city review, 32 Poems, Split Lip Magazine, Superstition Review, Dunes Review and many other places. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Nathan Oates's collection of stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. His stories have been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories (2008 & 2012), The 75th Anniversary Issue of The Antioch Review, Forty Stories, and elsewhere.