Diana Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the author of two books of nonfiction, Republic of Noise (2012) and Mind over Memes (2018), as well as numerous poems, stories, essays, songs, and translations. Her translations of the poetry of Tomas Venclova are featured in two books and numerous journals; her translation of Gyula Jenei’s poetry collection Mindig más (Always Different: Poems of Memory) was published in 2022 by Deep Vellum. Since 2017 she has been teaching at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary.

Hannibal Hamlin is the author of The Bible in Shakespeare and Psalm Culture in Early Modern English Literature, and editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion. His first foray into creative non-fiction is forthcoming in the journal River Teeth. His current preoccupation is writing a big book tentatively entitled, Allusion, Intertextuality, and the Play of Cultures. He is Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

David Mikics is the author of Bellow’s People, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Stanley Kubrick, The Annotated Emerson (editor), and other books. He is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches each year in the Human Situation, the UH Honors College great books course. He is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine (https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/david-mikics). He has been a member of the ALSCW for more than twenty years.

Ernest Suarez is the David M. O’Connell Professor of English at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.  His most recent publications include Poetic Song Verse: Blues-based Popular Music and Poetry (2021, co-authored with Mike Mattison) and an edition Of David Bottoms’s poetry, Scraps in the Blessings Jar (2023).