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Alan Michael Parker is the author of five books of poems, including Elephants & Butterflies (BOA, 2008), a novel, Cry Uncle (Mississippi, 2005) and the editor of The Imaginary Poets (Tupelo, 2005), among other scholarly volumes. His essays and reviews appear widely in journals
Crystal Williams is the author of three collections of poems, most recent of which is Troubled Tongues, winner of the Long Madgett Poetry Award and finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She has received awards and grants from The MacDowell Arts Colony, the Barbara Deming Memorial/Money for Women Fund,
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Arthur Sze's latest book of poetry, The Ginkgo Light (Copper Canyon Press) received the 2009 PEN Southwest Book Award in Poetry. He has also edited Chinese Writers on Writing, which has just been published by Trinity University Press.
Elizabeth Scanlon is an editor of The American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days and Poets Against the War.
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals.
Susan Briante is the author of Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press 2007). Recent poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Court Green, and POOL. A translator and essayist, Briante lived in Mexico City from 1991-1997 working for the magazines Artes de México and Mandorla.
Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College and the author of 12 books. He has won fellowships and poetry awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pushcart Prize, and many others.
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Afaa M. Weaver (born Michael S. Weaver), in a career that began in the 1970's, has worked as a poet, playwright, short fiction writer, journalist, and editor. His professional theater credits include the PDI Award for playwriting from ETA theater in Chicago. The Plum Flower Dance
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Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award,
Ada Limón is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Lucky Wreck and This Big Fake World. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Diode, Iowa Review, and others. Her third book, Sharks in the Rivers is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.