Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the most recent Barnard Women Poets Prize, and a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). A 2015 Pushcart Prize winner, she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Research Institute. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Stefania Heim is the author of A Table That Goes On for Miles (Switchback Books 2014), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the 2012 Gatewood Prize. A Poetry Editor at Boston Review and a founding editor of CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation, she has taught at Columbia University, Deep Springs College, Duke University, and Hunter College.