Campbell McGrath is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Spring Comes to Chicago, Florida Poems, Seven Notebooks, and most recently Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), an epic poem of the American west. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s

Kelly Cherry has published nineteen books—most recently, The Retreats of Thought: Poems (LSU, 2009)and Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life (BkMk, 2009)— eight chapbooks, and translations of two classical plays. She was the first recipient of the Hanes Poetry Prize,

Lesley Dauer’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry and Grandstreet, and several anthologies, including American Poets: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon UP) and The New American Poets (UP of New England). Her first book, The Fragile City (Bluestem Press), won the Bluestem Award. 

E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies. Since 1974, he as been the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. His most recent book is The 5th Inning, a second memoir published in 2009. Mr. Miller is often heard on National Public Radio.