Ngo Tu Lap has published three collections of poems in Vietnam, as well as five works of fiction, five collections of essays, and many translations from Russian, French, and English. Black Stars, co-translated by Martha Collins, is the first full collection of his work in English and received the PEN Poetry in Translation Award.

Joanna Higgins is the author of Waiting for the Queen: A Novel of Early America, a novel for young readers, as well as A Soldier’s Book, Dead Center, and The Importance of High Places, a collection of short stories.

Jeremy Jackson is the author of the memoir I Will Not Leave You Comfortless and two novels, In Summer and Life at These Speeds, which was selected for Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers.

Ed Pavlić is the author of Call It in the Air and Visiting Hours at the Color Line, as well as a novel, Another Kind of Madness.

Éireann Lorsung is the author of The Century, winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award, as well as two previous collections of poems: Her book and Music for Landing Planes By, which was named a New and Noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers.

Molly Beth Griffin is the author of Silhouette of a Sparrow, which received the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature and was a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, and several picture books, including Loon Baby and Rhoda’s Rock Hunt.

Tamas Dobozy is the author of Siege 13. He has published over fifty works of short fiction in such journals as Granta, AGNI, Fiction, and One Story. The story “The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived,” included in Siege 13, received a PEN/O. Henry Prize.

Leila Wilson is the author of The Hundred Grasses. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, A Public Space, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Canary, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jon Pineda is the author of Apology, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize in 2013. His other work includes the memoir Sleep in Me and three collections of poems. In 2016, he received the Library of Virginia Literary Award.