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John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit (BOA Editions, 2020); Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009); and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), which won the Levis Poetry Prize.
Gallaher is an associate professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University and a coeditor of The Laurel Review.
Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
The founder of the literary journal Fence, Rebecca Wolff's collection Manderley was selected for the 2000 National Poetry Series.
A poet, literary critic, and English professor at Harvard University, Stephanie Burt is the author of two poetry collections and a number of critical works.
Ralph Angel was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1951. His second book, Neither World, was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets' 1995 James Laughlin Award.