Julie Babcock is the author of Autoplay (MG Press). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, The Iowa Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, the recent anthology Feast! (Black Lawrence Press) and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Indiana Artist Commission and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She teaches writing and literature courses at University of Michigan.

Scott Beal is the author of Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems (Dzanc Books, 2014). His poems have appeared in Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Indiana Review, Muzzle, The Collagist, and many other journals and anthologies. He won a 2014 Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing, the English Department Writing Program, and the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, and he serves as Dzanc Writer-in-Residence for Ann Arbor Open School. He earned his MFA from the University of Michigan in 1996, where he received several Hopwood Awards. He curates and co-hosts the Skazat! monthly poetry series.