Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize.  Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Fence, the New Republic and the New Yorker.  Her honors include scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fulbright Program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Yaddo and Stanford, where she is currently a Stegner Fellow.  More at margaret-ross.com

Robin Beth Schaer is the author of the poetry collection Shipbreaking (Anhinga 2015).  Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Paris Review, and Guernica, among others.  She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, Saltonstall, and VCCA.  She teaches writing in New York City and worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty, a 180-foot ship lost in Hurricane Sandy.