Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a therapist in Washington, DC, and is the author of distance decay (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). She is co-translating the selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and co-curated the In Your Ear Reading Series for several years. Her work has recently appeared in The Recluse, Aufgabe, West Wind Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Fence.

Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013) and Naturalism (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015). Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere–in 2014 she was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, she currently lives and teaches in New York City.