Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of a Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize. She is the poetry editor of the Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Brain Fever and Toxic Flora. She currently serves as president of the board for the Poetry Society of America and is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.