Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and Dirge for an Imaginary World, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. He hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS and lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughters.
Steven Withrow has authored four chapbooks—Crackles of Speech, The Sun Ships, The Bedlam Philharmonic, and The Nothing Box—and his poems for children and adults have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and textbooks worldwide. He studied writing, literature, and publishing at Roger Williams University and Emerson College. He recently wrote the libretto for a chamber opera based on a classic English ghost story. He lives on Cape Cod, where he has worked as a newspaper editor and a bookseller.
Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (SFASU Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series and Verse Daily, and have won prizes from the Southwest Review, River Styx, and the Columbia Review.
