Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was an Oregon Book Awards finalist,  and co-author of American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, staff interviewer at Lantern Review, and co-founder at A Wave Blue World. She is teaching The Poetics of Motherhood  at Literary Arts in May.

Patrick Ryan Frank is the author of the poetry collections The Opposite of People and How the Losers Love What’s Lost, which won the 2010 Intro Prize from Four Way Books.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of   Fjords Vol 1, which won the Oregon Book Award in poetry in 2013. His other books include Scary, No Scary, The Man Suit, and the Book of Joshua. He coedits Octopus Books. In May he is teaching a poetry workshop  at Literary Arts.