Robert Bagg is author of four collections of poems and translator of eight plays by Euripides and Sophocles. He has received the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, NEA, and other grants. His next collection of poems is Horsegod: New and Selected Poems. He is currently writing a biography of Richard Wilbur.

Russell Banks is author of the novels Continental Drift, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Darling, and The Reserve, as well as collections of short stories.

Leslie Brisman is Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University. His books include Milton’s Poetry of Choice, Romantic Origins, and The Voice of Jacob.

Vincent Giroud’s most recent publications are the volumes Figures de l’Antiquité dans l’opéra français and Aspects de l’opéra français de Meyerbeer à Honegger, both co-edited with Jean-Christophe Branger. Currently a professor at the Université de Franche-Comté, he just completed A Short History of French Opera for Yale University Press.

Dana Goodyear is author of Honey and Junk and senior editor at The New Yorker.

Daniel Hall, the Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College, is author of three books of poems, Hermit with Landscape, selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; Strange Relation, selected for the National Poetry Series; and Under Sleep. He has received awards and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEA, the Whiting Foundation, and the Guggenheim, among others.

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of Contemporary Poetry Review. He reviews books for the New York Sun and the Academy of American Poets, and his poems have appeared in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, and The American Scholar. He works as an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife, a classical archaeologist.

Mark Jarman’s latest collection of poems is Epistles (Sarabande Books). He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Tessa Kale has a M.F.A. from Columbia University and is the author of Daphne Underground. Her poems have appeared in the Western Humanities Review.

Brigit Peegen Kelley is the author most recently of The Orchard, BOA Editions, Ltd. She teaches at the University of Illinois.

Arthur Kirsch is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia. His extensive work on Auden includes Auden and Christianity and an edition of Auden’s Lectures on Shakespeare.

Jonathan Levi is a co-founder of Granta and author of the novel A Guide for the Perplexed.

George Martin has written a number of books on operatic subjects, among them three on Verdi, and also books on other subjects, including the biography CCB: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, 2006 recipient of the U. S. Supreme Court Historical Society Griswold Prize.

Jeffrey Meyers has published more than twenty biographies, including The Genius and the Goddess, a study of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, which will be published by Random House this spring. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jed Perl is the art critic for The New Republic and the author, most recently, of Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World (Knopf).

Siobhan Phillips is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Wyatt Prunty is director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His books include The Times Between, What Women Know, What Men Believe, Since the Noon Mail Stopped, and Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems (2000). His new collection will appear from Johns Hopkins University Press this year.

Deborah Rosenthal is a painter who shows at the Bowery Gallery in New York and teaches at the Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University.

Esther Schor is a professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria (Princeton) and The Hills of Holland: Poems (Archer Books). Her recent biography, Emma Lazarus (Nextbook/ Schocken), won the National Jewish Book Award.

Jordan Smith’s collections of poems include Three Grange Halls (Swan Scythe Press) and For Appearances (University of Tampa Press).

Brian Swann has published collections of poems and short fiction, books for children, and translations. He has also edited a number of books on Native American literature. He lives in Manhattan.

Kate Walbert is author of Where She Went and The Gardens of Kyoto, as well as fiction and articles that have appeared in The Paris Review, Double Take, The New York Times, and many other publications. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and has taught writing at Yale University.

Valerie Wohlfeld’s poems have appeared recently in Antioch Review, New England Review, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets for her collection Thinking the World Visible. She has just finished a novel, Amusing the Raven.