Valerie Coulton’s books include still life with elegy, small bed & field guide, open book, and The Cellar Dreamer, and passing world pictures. With Edward Smallfield, she’s the co-author of lirio and anonymous. She is a co-editor at Apogee Press and curates palabrosa.net, an online chapbook and interview series.

Edward Smallfield is the author of to whom it may concern, equinox, One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a book-length collaboration with Doug
MacPherson), and The Pleasures of C. He has published several chapbooks: locate (with Miriam Pirone), lirio and anonymous (with Valerie Coulton), sargasso, americana and a journal of the plague year. He is a cofounder and co-editor at Apogee Press.

Laura Walker is the author of six books of poetry: psalmbook (Apogee Press, 2022), story (Apogee Press, 2016), Follow-Haswed (Apogee Press, 2012), bird book (Shearsman Books, 2011), rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press, 2008), and swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004), and two chapbooks: genesis (above/ground press, 2023) and bird book (Albion Books, 2010). Laura grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley, California, where she teaches poetry, keeps bees, and wrangles chickens.

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.