Derek Graf’s Green Burial won the 2021 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award and was short-listed for the 2021 Nervous Ghost Press Prize for Poetry, long-listed for the Backlash Press Best Book Award, and a finalist for the 2020 Gerald Cable Book Award. Graf earned an MFA from Oklahoma State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas. He serves as Lecturer in Writing and the Humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Brianna Noll specializes in the history and theory of lyric poetry, British Romanticism, speculative literature, and the relationship between the lyric and the fantastic. Her secondary interests lie in Japanese language and literature, and she is currently at work on a translation of a book of postwar haiku. Noll helped found the literary magazine The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, for which she serves as poetry editor.

Christy Stillwell has taught college freshman, tutored adults in writing skills, clerked in bookstores and edited manuscripts, college essays, textbooks and artist statements.

Amina Gautier is a Brooklyn-born native New Yorker who currently divides her time between Chicago and Miami. She is the author of three award-winning short story collections.

The daughter of an American airman and a British mother, Jane Satterfield grew up near Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. She is a poet, essayist, professor, and mother. 

John Estes directs the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Kirun Kapur's first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize, the Julie Suk Award and several other prizes. It was published in 2015 by Elixir Press.

Josephine Yu is the author of Prayer Book of the Anxious, winner of the Judge’s Prize of the 15th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards.