Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Jubilat, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He has been honored with a “Discovery”/The Nation award and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Slow Lightning, his first book, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition. He’s a 2011 recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award.

Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the Kathryn Morton Prize from Sarabande Books. Her poems appear in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Salt Hill, Copper Nickel and Verse Daily. Karyna received her MFA from the University of Michigan , and is currently pursuing her PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She serves as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and linelinelineline.

Ander Monson is the author of five books, most recently Vanishing Point (Graywolf, 2010) and The Available World (Sarabande Books, 2010), a website, a decoder wheel, two chapbooks, and other paraphernalia. The editor of the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press, he lives and teaches in Tucson, Arizona.

Patricia Smith is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House, 2012) and Blood Dazzler, chronicling the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. Smith’s work has been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and Tin House. She is a Cave Canem faculty member and a professor for the City University of New York.