Gregory Pardlo's Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His first collection Totem won the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is also the author of a memoir in essays forthcoming from Knopf. Pardlo is on the faculty of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University-Camden. He lives with his family in Brooklyn.

Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Thom Gunn Award. His most recent book is War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press).