Michael Burkard is a 76 year old poet who has been publishing his poems since 1970. His last book was Lucky Coat Anywhere (Nightboat Books, 2011). He is retired from Syracuse University where he taught for many years, and now lives in Vermont.

Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and the chapbook The Black House (Foundlings Press, 2023) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast. 

Nicholas Molbert is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Goodness Gracious and Cocodrie Elegy. He holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born and raised on Louisiana's Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles.