Shanna Compton is the author of the poetry collections Brink, For Girls & Others, Down Spooky, and several chapbooks. The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem, is forthcoming from Bloof Books. She is also the editor of a collection of essays on the topic of video games, Gamers. Her work has been widely published, including in the Best American Poetry series and other anthologies.
R. A. Villanueva’s debut collection, Reliquaria, won the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Villanueva's writing has appeared online at Guernica, Prac Crit, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency as well as in print publications, including Poetry, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and Rattle. His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review. He is a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.