Kurt Heinzelman has been publishing poetry for thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Marlboro Review, and Southwest Review. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected for the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award. His first poetry collection The Halfway Tree was a finalist for the 2001 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award of the Texas Institute of Letters, and his second collection Black Butterflies was also an Ornish finalist in 2005. Executive Curator at the Harry Ransom Center, he also teaches English Literature courses and is widely published in literary criticism and cultural history.

Judith Kroll is the author of two collections—Our Elephant and That Child and In the Temperate Zone—and has published poems in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Southern Review, and a critical book on Sylvia Plath. Her creative nonfiction has been published in journals including Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, and River City. Recipient of two NEA fellowships in poetry, Kroll has been awarded other grants for creative nonfiction and for translating South Indian mystical poems.

David Wevill (Emeritus) is the author of numerous books of poetry—among them Child Eating Snow, Figures of Eight, Other Names for the Heart—a translation of selected poems of Ferencz Jubasz, and Solo with Grazing Deer. He has received the E.C. Gregory Award, Arts Council of Great Britain awards, the Richard Hillary Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent collection is entitled Asterisks.

Thomas Whitbread's books include the collections Whomp and Moonshiver, Four Infinitives, and The Structures Minds Erect. His poems have also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Massachusetts Review, and The New Yorker, and his short stories in The Paris Review, Shenandoah, and The Texas Observer.

Dean Young is the author of 8 books of poetry, to date, including Design with X, Beloved Infidel, Strike Anywhere (which received the Colorado Prize for Poetry), First Course in Turbulence, Skid, Elegy on Toy Piano, Embryoyo, and Primitive Mentor. He earned his BA in English from Indiana University (1978) and his MFA in Creative Writing there in 1984. He held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in 1987-88 and has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2002) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1988, 1996) and received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been included three times in The Best American Poetry. He holds the William S. Livingston Chair in Creative Writing of the Michener Center for Writers.