Sara Nicholson is the author of three books, most recently April (The Song Cave, 2023). She lives in Boise, Idaho.

Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Hello, the Roses; Empathy; and I Love Artists. Her collection A Treatise on Stars was a finalist for the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, PEN Open Book Award, and Kingsley Tufts Prize. In 2021, she won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for Poetry for her lifetime contributions to American Poetry. Plant Thought, a chapbook in collaboration with Kiki Smith and Richard Tuttle is forthcoming. She has published five poetry collaborations with Kelsey Street Press.