Marcella Durand is a poet, essayist, and translator. Recent books include To husband is to tender; The Prospect; and a translation from the French of Michèle Métail's book-length poem, "Earth's Horizons/Les Horizons du sol." She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Her latest book, A Winter Triangle, is the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize Winner and will be published by Fordham University Press in Fall 2025.

Jennifer Firestone is Associate Professor of Writing (Poetry), Chair of Writing, Co-Chair of Literary Studies, and Director of a Pedagogy Program, Academic Fellows, at The New School's Eugene Lang College in New York City. She is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor, with Dana Teen Lomax, of Letters to Poets.