Rigoberto González

Rigoberto González is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose. He has received fellowships from The Lannan Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and United States Artists.

Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Grief Sequence, a narrative reflection on grief over the loss of a loved one; Undergloom; and Infamous Landscapes.

Paul Tran

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling. Their work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.

Paul Guest

Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness.

Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith is the author of Unshuttered; Incendiary Art, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore

Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and most recently West: A Translation.

Monica Youn

Monica Youn is the author of four poetry collections, most recently From From, which was published in both the United States and in the United Kingdom in 2023.

Molly McCully Brown

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the poetry collection In the Field Between Us.

Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Story of a Poem, Father’s Day, and Why Poetry. He is editor-at-large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations.

Laura Da’

Laura Da’ is the author of the collection of poems Instruments of the True Measure, which won the Washington State Book Award. Her first book, Tributaries, won the 2016 American Book Award. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee and a lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest.