Sarah Pinder is the author of the poetry collections Common Place and Cutting Room, both from Coach House Press. Her writing has been included in Geist, Arc, and Poetry is Dead, and others. She lives in Toronto.

Jessica Baran is the author of three poetry collections: COMMON SENSE (Lost Roads Press, 2016), EQUIVALENTS (Lost Roads Press, 2012 - winner of the Brigham Women Writers Award) and REMAINS TO BE USED (Apostrophe Books, 2010), as well as the chapbook Late and Soon, Getting and Spending (All Along Press, 2012). She was the director of fort gondo compound for the arts, in St. Louis, MO for five years. Her poetry and art criticism have appeared in Art in America, Artforum.com, A Public Space, Aufgabe, the Awl, BOMB, the Boston Review, and Poor Claudia, among other publications.

Sophie Klahr, the author of MEET ME HERE AT DAWN (YesYes Books, 2016), was born in Pittsburgh, PA and now lives mostly in Los Angeles.