William Baer

William Baer is the director of the University of Evansville Press.

David Barber

Poetry editor of the The Atlantic and teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College. He is the author of two collections of poems, The Spirit Level, which received the Terrence Des Pres Prize, and Wonder Cabinet (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 1995 and 2006 respectively).

Paul Bone

Paul Bone is co-editor of Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry.

Georges and Anne Borchardt

Founders of the literary agency Georges Borchardt, Inc.

Valerie Borchardt

Agent with Georges Borchardt, Inc.

Michelle Brower

Agent with Folio Literary Management.

Richard Burgin

Richard Burgin is the founding and current editor of the internationally distributed literary journal, Boulevard.

Laura Maria Censabella

Laura Maria Censabella, an American playwright and screenwriter, is the director of The Playwrights Unit of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Kathleen Chalfant

Award-winning stage and screen actress.

Elizabeth Diggs

American playwright and screenwriter.

Barbara Epler

Barbara Epler has worked for New Directions since 1984. She became the president in 2011.

Leigh Feldman

Leigh Feldman is an agent at Writers House.

Gary Fisketjon

Senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf.

Mary Flinn

Editor of The New Virginia Review and an editor of Blackbird.

Gary Garrison

Gary Garrison is the executive director of creative affairs with the Dramatists Guild of America.

Rob Griffith

Rob Griffith is co-editor of Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry.

Gail Hochman

Agent and partner with Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.

John Irwin

Decker Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of four works of literary criticism, most recently The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytical Detective (Johns Hopkins Press, 1994), which was a recipient of the Christian Gauss Prize from Phi Beta Kappa for best scholarly book of the year and the Aldo Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association. Writing as John Bricuth, Irwin is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Heisenberg Variations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), Just Let Me Say This About That (Overlook Press/Sewanee Writers’ Series, 1998), and As Long As It’s Big (John Hopkins University Press, 2005). He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mike Levine

Acquisitions editor at Northwestern University Press.

David Lynn

Editor of the Kenyon Review. His books include Fortune Telling, a short-story collection, Wrestling with Gabriel, a novel (Carnegie-Mellon, 1998, 2003), and, most recently, Year of Fire (Harvest Books, 2006).

Speer Morgan

Speer Morgan is the editor of The Missouri Review. 

Emily Morse

Director of Artistic Development with New Dramatists.

Kathy Pories

Senior editor at Algonquin Books.

Elisabeth Schmitz

Senior editor at Grove/Atlantic Inc.

Don Share

Senior editor of Poetry. His first book, Union (Zoo Press, 2002), was a finalist for the Boston Globe/PEN New England Winship Award for outstanding book. His newest books are Wishbone (Black Sparrow Books, forthcoming) and Basil Bunting's Persia (Flood Editions, forthcoming). I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), his translations of Miguel Hernandez, received the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclan Prize for Translation from the Society of Authors.

Willard Spiegelman

Willard Spiegelman is the editor of Southwest Review.

Philip Terzian

Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard.

Liz Van Hoose

Editor at Viking Penguin.

Allen Wier

Allen Wier is the author of a book of stories, Things About to Disappear, and four novels, Blanco, Departing as Air, A Place for Outlaws, and Tehano. Wier edited Voicelust: Eight Contemporary Writers on Style and Walking on Water and Other Stories. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Five Points, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and The New York Times. A Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Wier teaches at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Amy Williams

Co-founder of McCormick & Williams agency.

Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and a novel, The Family Fang, which was named one of Time Magazine’s top 10 fiction books for 2011. He is an assistant professor of English and coordinator of the Certificate in Creative Writing at the University of the South.

Robert S. Wilson

Editor of The American Scholar.

Renée Zuckerbrot

Founding agent of Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency.