D. Gilson is the author of two chapbooks; Brit-Lit (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Catch & Release (Seven Kitchens Press). His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary Review, Los Angeles Review & his book reviews appear on The Rumpus. He’s a Ph.D. student in American Literature & Culture at George Washington University, and lives in Washington DC.

Aaron Smith is the author of two books of poems; Appetite, and Blue on Blue Ground (both published by University of Pittsburgh Press). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Ecotone, Court Green, Gulf Coast, Witness, and other journals. He serves as Poetry Editor of Bloom, and teaches creative writing at Lesley University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Randall Mann is the author of three books of poems; Straight Razor (Persea Books), Breakfast with Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press), and Complaint in the Garden. Booklist Magazine said, “readers would do well to recognize Mann’s place alongside poets like D. A. Powell, Marilyn Hacker, and Anne Sexton.” His poems have appeared in many journals including The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Literary Imagination, Subtropics, Salmagundi, and Poetry Magazine, which recently awarded him the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. He lives in San Francisco.