Miho Nonaka is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College. Her poems and essays have appeared in various journals and anthologies. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2007.

John Fry is author of the chapbook silt will swirl (NewBorder). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary and Boxcar Poetry Review, among others. He edits poetry for Newfound and lives in the Texas Hill Country.

Jennifer Raha is an aspiring poet. She currently has poems forthcoming in Triquarterly, Foothills, and The Santa Clara Review.

L. S. Klatt is Associate Professor of English at Calvin College. He has published poetry in numerous magazines and publications, including the Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Crazyhorse, and The Common. His poetry collections have won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and the Iowa Poetry Prize. His new volume, Sunshine Wound, will be published at the end of 2014 by Free Verse Editions (Parlor Press).

John Allen Taylor lives in Spokane, WA where he is the fiction editor for Rock & Sling. His work has appeared in Booth: A Journal.

Susanna Childress has published two books of poetry: Jagged with Love, winner of the 2005 Brittingham Prize, and Entering the House of Awe, winner of the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award. She lives in Holland, Michigan.