Emily Fragos is the recipient of the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is the author of four books of poetry, Unrest, Saint Torch, Hostage, and Little Savage. She has taught at Columbia University, Yale, and New York University.

Stanley Moss is the author of several poetry collections, including The Skull of Adam, A History of Color, and Abandoned Poems. He is the founder of Sheep Meadow Press, a non profit publisher devoted to poetry with a particular focus on international poets in translation. He lives in New York.