Aaron Smith is the author of four books of poetry published by the Pitt Poetry Series: Blue on Blue Ground, Appetite, Primer, and, most recently, The Book of Daniel. A three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and twice a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Mass Cultural Council and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in such publications as The Baffler, Ploughshares, and The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tony Trigilio’s newest book is Proof Something Happened, selected by Susan Howe as the winner of the 2020 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (forthcoming, 2021). His other books of poetry include Ghosts of the Upper Floor (2019) and Inside the Walls of My Own House (2016), both from BlazeVOX [books], and White Noise (Apostrophe Books, 2013), among others. His Selected Poems, Fuera del Taller del Cosmos, was published in 2018 by Guatemala’s Editorial Poe (translated by Bony Hernández). Trigilio is also the editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments (Ahsahta Press, 2014) and author of Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012). He is a Professor of Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College Chicago.

David Trinidad’s latest book of poems is Swinging on a Star (Turtle Point Press, 2017). His other books include Notes on a Past Life (BlazeVOX [books], 2016), Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (Turtle Point, 2013), Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (Turtle Point, 2011), The Late Show (Turtle Point, 2007), and Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000). His collaborations with other poets include Descent of the Dolls, Part I (with Jeffery Conway and Gillian McCain, BlazeVOX, 2017), By Myself: An Autobiography (with D.A. Powell, Turtle Point, 2009), and Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, Turtle Point, 2003). He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011) and Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith (Turtle Point, 2019). Trinidad lives in Chicago, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College.

Marc Meierkort is a poet, editor, and educator. His work has been published in Neologism Poetry Journal, The Main Street Rag, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, and Allium: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. He received his MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Previously, he taught high school English for 19 years in Chicago’s south suburbs.