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.

In the late 1990s, Matvei Yankelevich co-founded Ugly Duckling Presse. Since 2022, he is the editor of World Poetry, and in 2023 he founded the small press Winter Editions. He has received fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, NYFA, and Civitella Ranieri, and teaches translation at Columbia University's School of the Arts. His translations from Russian include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and a forthcoming edition of Osip Mandelstam’s Voronezh Notebooks. He is the author of several books and chapbooks, including Dead Winter from Fonograf Editions.