Karen Donovan is the author of Aard-vark to Axolotl, a collection of illustrated short prose published by Etruscan Press, and two collections of poetry, Your Enzymes Are Calling the Ancients (Persea Books) and Fugitive Red (University of Massachusetts Press). She works for a social enterprise incubator in Providence.

Diane Raptosh's verse collection, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor's Arts Award in Excellence. A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum security prisons. She teaches literature and creative writing and co-directs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Her sixth book of poems, Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles was published by Etruscan Press in July 2020. www.dianeraptosh.com.

Daneen Wardrop has authored four books of poetry: Silk Road, The Odds of Being, Cyclorama, and Life as It, winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. Her most recent scholarly books include Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing and Nurse Narratives: Writing the Civil War, 1863-1870. She has received the Distinguished Faculty award at Western Michigan University, where she teaches poetry and United States literature.