Sarah V. Schweig's first book, Take Nothing with You was published by the University of Iowa Press (Kuhl House Poets series). She is also the author of the chapbook S (Dancing Girl Press). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Everyday Genius, HTML Giant, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Maggy, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, Tin House, Verse Daily, The Volta, Slice, West Branch, and Western Humanities Review, among others. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was the recipient of the David Craig Austen Memorial Award, and previously a 2012 Emerging Poet Resident at Poets House, a 2010 Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist, she studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research and lives and works in New York City.

Elizabeth Arnold has published five books of poems, The Reef (University of Chicago Press, 1999), CIVILIZATION (Flood Editions, 2006), EFFACEMENT (Flood Editions, 2010), LIFE (Flood Editions, 2014), and SKELETON COAST (Flood Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Paris Review, Poetry, and Slate. She is on the MFA faculty at the University of Maryland and lives outside Washington, DC.