Ann Fisher-Wirth is the author of several poetry books, including Paradise Is Jagged, The Bones of Winter Birds, Mississippi, and Carta Marina. She has received the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, two Mississippi Arts Commission Poetry fellowships, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Mississippi, where she also directs the minor in environmental studies.
Laura-Gray Street is the author of Pigment and Fume and Shift Work. Her work has appeared in ISLE, Shenandoah, Blackbird, Notre Dame Review, Best New Poets 2005, and elsewhere. Her honors include four Pushcart Prize nominations, a poetry fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Terrain.org’s Poetry Prize, and the Dana Award in Poetry. Street is an assistant professor of English at Randolph College and president of the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network.
Margaret Ronda is the author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End and the poetry collections Personification and For Hunger. She teaches American poetry, environmental literature and theory, and creative writing at the University of California Davis and lives in Davis.
Camille Dungy is the poetry editor for Orion, host of the podcast Immaterial, and a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden and four collections of poetry. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
