Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), and Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022). Coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), and recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.
Jennifer Moore was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of Easy Does It (2021) and The Veronica Maneuver (2015), both from the University of Akron Press, and a chapbook of centos, Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Interim, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing and Director of the Honors Program at Ohio Northern University and lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize and is a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Award in poetry. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Narrative, and Kenyon Review, and have received the W. B. Yeats Prize, Frontier Poetry’s prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review. Her work has received support from the Boston Athenaeum and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.
Alyse Knorr is an associate professor of English at Regis University, co-editor of Switchback Books, and co-producer of the Sweetbitter podcast. She is the author of the poetry collections Ardor (2023), a Lambda Literary Award finalist, as well as Mega-City Redux (2017), Copper Mother (2016), and Annotated Glass (2013). She also authored the video game history books GoldenEye (2022) and Super Mario Bros. 3 (2016) and four poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, POETRY Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, and The Georgia Review. She received her MFA from George Mason University.