Rob Arnold is a CHamoru poet, essayist, arts leader, and author of To the Unnamed, forthcoming. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Adroit Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, Solstice, and Poem-a-Day, among others, and has been anthologized in New CHamoru Literature and Na'huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he serves as Executive Director of Poets House. (Photo credit: Jennifer Haigh)

Aracelis Girmay’s (Chair) most recent publication is Green of All Heads. She served as the editor of So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth and How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. A finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Girmay is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund. She teaches at Stanford University. (Photo credit: Yekaterina Gyadu)

Jon Pineda is the author of six books: three poetry collections, two novels, and one memoir. His work has twice received the Library of Virginia Literary Award, for poetry and fiction. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New England Review, Five Points, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia and teaches at William & Mary.

Roger Reeves is the author of King Me, Best Barbarian, and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Best Barbarian was a winner of the Griffin Prize, Kingsley Tufts Award, and Finalist for the National Book Award, among others. Dark Days: Fugitive Essays won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Non-Fiction. His poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas. (Photo credit: Ana Schwartz)

Rosanna Warren is a Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She is the author of seven books of poetry—most recently, Hindsight, So Forth, and Ghost in a Red Hat—and the biography, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters. Her awards include prizes from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. (Photo credit: Claire Holt)