Michael Dumanis is the author of Creature (Four Way Books, 2023), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Big Other Book Award, and the Vermont Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Born in the former Soviet Union, he emigrated to the United States as a child and now teaches at Bennington College, where he serves as editor of Bennington Review.

Jared Harél is the author of, most recently, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) which won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry and was named a finalist for both the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Awarded the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, as well as the William Matthews Poetry Prize from Asheville Poetry Review, Harél teaches, plays drums, and lives with his family in Westchester, New York.
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Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022). Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, The New Republic, Orion, and elsewhere. Her seventh book, Assembled Audience, is due out from Milkweed in 2026. Meitner is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also directs the MFA program.

Maya Pindyck’s third book of poems, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023), won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Plume, and Granta (Hebrew edition). She is coauthor of the book A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers: Reorienting Classroom Literacy Practices (Bloomsbury, 2022). An NEA fellowship recipient, Pindyck lives in Philadelphia, where she is an assistant professor, chair of the Creative & Critical Studies department, and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design.
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Carlie Hoffman is the author of One More World Like This World (Four Way Books, 2025); When There Was Light (2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and This Alaska (2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers & Authors Gold Award. She is the translator of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books, 2026) and White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2025), as well as the poems of Rose Ausländer. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She is the founder and editorial director of Orange Editions/Small Orange Journal.