David Yezzi’s latest books are Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life (St. Martin’s Press) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (Measure Press). He is the editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, foreword by J. D. McClatchy. As an actor, he recently performed the roles of King Lear (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) and Hamlet’s Ghost/Player King (Chesapeake Shakespeare). His verse play Schnauzer, produced by The Baltimore Poets Theater, was published by Exot Books. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, he is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.

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.

Rebecca Rainof is Townsend Faculty Fellow at the Townsend Center for Humanities at UC Berkeley and an Associate Researcher on the faculty in the Department of English. She specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature and is the author of The Victorian Novel of Adulthood (Ohio UP, 2015). She is completing a book manuscript on Van Gogh and Victorian literature and also enjoys writing poetry and creative nonfiction.

Maria DiBattista is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at  Princeton University. She specializes in twentieth century literature and film, the European novel and narrative theory. Her books include Virginia Woolf: The Fables of Anon, First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction (Chicago, 1991), as co-editor and contributor, High and Low Moderns: British Literature and Culture 1889-1939 (Oxford, 1997), Fast Talking Dames (Yale University Press, 2003) and, Imagining Virginia Woolf (Princeton University Press, 2008).

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).