Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin. The author of North of Order (YesYes Books), Book of Lake (Cutback), and Orient (CSU Poetry Center Press), he currently lives in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World. Among his honors are a 2016 Whiting Award for Nonfiction, the 2014 James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a 2015 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. His work has appeared in Harper's, BOMB, The Oxford American, Chicago Review, The Nation, and other magazines and anthologies. He teaches at the University of Idaho and in the Bennington College Writing Seminars, and lives in Moscow, Idaho.