Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Brown’s first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of five books of poems: Crushing It, Days of Shame & Failure, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Drunk by Noon, and A Gringo Like Me.

Jason Schneiderman’s fifth collection of poems, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, is forthcoming in fall 2024.

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing In Odessa and Deaf Republic. He is also the translator and editor of many other books, including Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, and Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a writer from the east side of Columbus, Ohio. He is an acclaimed poet and cultural critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, MTV News, and other outlets.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities, a National Poetry Series winner; Holy Moly Carry Me, which won a National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Useful Junk.

Ellen Bass’s most recent collection of poems, Indigo, was published in 2020. Her other collections include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. In 1973, she co-edited the first major anthology of women’s poetry, No More Masks!

Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

Dorianne Laux is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of twelve collections of poems, including Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems, Facts About the Moon, and The Book of Men.