Dan Chelotti is the author of x (McSweeney’s, 2013) and chapbooks, The Eights (Poetry Society of America, 2006) and Compost (Greying Ghost Press). His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Huffington Post, the Kenyon Review, POETRY, jubilat, the Boston Review, A Public Space, Fence, North American Review, among others. Chelotti has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and has received grants and fellowships from the Slovenian Arts Council and the Colraine Writers’ Workshop. In 2014, a poem that originally appeared in iO: A Journal of New American Poetry was selected by AE Stallings for a Best of the Net award. He teaches English at Elms College, director of The Blue House and its literary programs, and lives in Massachusetts.

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Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, a memoir-in-poems of love and marriage, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry and one of Library Journal‘s Best Poetry Books of the Year, and Pelvis with Distance, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, Jessica co-authored Write It!, a collection of writing prompts from Spruce Books, an imprint of Penguin/RandomHouse. She is the founder of Yetzirah, an organization for Jewish poets, and unalone, her collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2024.

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Pam Thompson is the Director of college programs at Cabot Street College and Clemente Humanities Programs in Western MA. She has a BA from Yale College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has been a Macdowell Colony fellow. She is the author of Every Past Thing, and is at work on another novel set in the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, Wednesday Whale, or Unhappiness Risked.

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Nathan McClain was born and raised in the lower desert of Southern California. He is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Guesthouse, The Common, and The Critical Flame, among others. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literary Arts at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review.

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Jeff Parker is the author of several books including Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal, the novel Ovenman, and the short story collection The Taste of Penny. His many collaborative books and anthologies include: Clean Rooms, Low Rates; Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk; A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors; Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia; Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States; and The Back of the Line. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Tin House, and others. He teaches prose in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and he is the Co-Founder and Director of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight (Yale University Press, 2009), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and a recipient of the Sarton Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her second book, Star Lake (The Song Cave, 2022), is both intimate and profoundly vast. Collins writes sharply self-aware poems that stretch through time: the voices of past grief speak to the writer, who cannot help but look forward into eternity, or rather decide that “we’re already in it.” She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry, and a doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Denver. She has also taught in the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Apart from her work as a writer and teacher, she has also been an associate producer on the PBS documentary series Frontline and American Experience. Collins’s courses include the Intermediate Poetry Workshop and Introduction to Creative Writing. She has previously taught the Advanced Poetry Workshop as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. Collins teaches Creative Writing at Smith College.

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