Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, critic, potter, and editor. In the late 1970s, he and Bruce Boone founded New Narrative, a literary movement of self-reflexive storytelling that combines essay, lyric, and autobiography in one work. Glück is the author of the story collections Elements and Denny Smith; the novels Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe, and About Ed (all published by New York Review Books); and a volume of collected essays, Communal Nude. His books of poetry include La Fontaine with Bruce Boone, Reader, In commemoration of the Visit with Kathleen Fraser, and I, Boombox. Glück has served as codirector at Small Press Traffic, as an associate editor at Lapis Press, and as the director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, where he is an emeritus professor. 

Rob Halpern organizes the Writers' Bloc, a poetry-writing workshop inside Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Southeast Michigan, and is a professor of creative writing at Eastern Michigan University. He's the author of Music for Porn and Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World, among other works. Together with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Halpern is also the editor of From Our Hearts To Yours: New Narrative As Contemporary Practice.