Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet and translator whose translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull, 2021) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Decorated with the French Academic Palms and twice awarded NEA literature translation grants, she’s the author of An Infusion of Violets (Seagull Books, 2019), named “New & Noteworthy” by The New York Times. Her third full-length poetry collection, Piano in the Dark, was recently published (Seagull Books, 2023).

M. E. Silverman had 2 books of poems published and co-edited Bloomsbury’s Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust, and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium. @4ME2Silver

David Ebenbach is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including his poetry collection What's Left to Us by Evening and his creativity guide The Artist's Torah. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.

Dina Elenbogen is author of the memoir, Drawn from Water and the poetry collections, Apples of the Earth and Shore.  She’s received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and has published widely in magazines and anthologies. She has a poetry MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and teaches at the University of Chicago.

Roger Greenwald, a New Yorker living in Toronto, has had poetry in numerous journals and has published three collections, most recently Slow Mountain Train (2015) and The Half-Life (2020), both from Tiger Bark. He’s won the CBC Literary Award twice, and the 2018 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize from Exile Magazine.

Susan Rich’s books include Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems and Cloud Pharmacy. Her work has garnered awards from the Fulbright Foundation, PEN USA and the Times Literary Supplement. Her poems appear in Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry Ireland and elsewhere. Her sixth collection, Blue Atlas, arrives in 2024.

Carly Sachs is the author of the steam sequence and Descendants of Eve. She is the editor of the why and later, a collection of poems about rape and assault. Her poems and stories have been included in The Best American Poetry Series and read on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She works for The Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass where she serves as the PJ Library Coordinator.

Philip Terman’s most recent books are This Crazy Devotion (Broadstone), Our Portion: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House) and, as co-translator with Saleh Razzouk, Tango Beneath a Narrow Ceiling: the Selected poems of Riad Saleh Hussein (Bitter Oleander). He co-directs the Jewish Poets Reading series sponsored by the JCC—Buffalo.