STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words.

CAMILLE ROMAN is Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Emeritus Professor of English at Washington State University. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View.

THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.