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Ali Liebegott is the author of the novels Cha-Ching! (City Lights, 2013), The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf, 2007), and The Beautifully Worthless (Suspect Thoughts, 2005). Her honors include a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts. She writes for the TV show Transparent and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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).
Alice Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Barely Composed (W. W. Norton, 2015).
Born on March 27, 1978, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothea Lasky received her BA from Washington University.