Jesse Nathan’s poems appear in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, FENCE, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. Nathan was born in Berkeley, where he lived until he was ten; he spent the second half of his childhood on a wheat farm in rural Kansas. Nathan moved to San Francisco after college, in part to take a position at McSweeney’s, where he co-founded the poetry series. His work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ashbery Home School, Bread Loaf, and the Community of Writers. He lives now in Oakland and is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley. He is a Faculty Fellow in Poetry and the Senses at the Arts Research Center at Berkeley.

Katie Peterson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Life in a Field (2021) and A Piece of Good News (2019), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She directs the MFA Program at UC Davis where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor's Fellow. Her work has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute, among other organizations. She collaborates with her partner Young Suh, and their 2017 exhibition "On the Boundary" showed at the Datz Museum in Gwangju, South Korea this fall. She is a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute. She was born and raised in the Bay Area, and she lives in Berkeley.