David Herd is the author of a book of poetry, Mandelson! Mandelson! A Memoir, two books of critical prose (Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature and John Ashbery and American Poetry) and co-author (anonymously) of The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry. From 2002-5 he was co-editor of Poetry Review. His poems, fictions, essays and reviews have appeared in, among other publications: The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The TLS, The New Statesman, PN Review, The Enthusiast, and Another Magazine. He lives in Whitstable with the members of his family. He is currently writing a long story featuring a hut.

Kent Johnson is the editor and literary executor of the poets Araki Yasusada, Tosa Motokiyu and Alexandra Papaditsas, the translator into English (with Forrest Gander) of the major Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz, and the author, most recently, of the books of poems Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War and Epigramititis (epigrams on 118 living American poets). An important selection of his various works recently appeared in Bosnia, from Eiffel’s Bridge Books. He grew up in Uruguay and worked in rural Nicaragua in 1980 and 1983, teaching basic literacy and adult education during the Sandinista revolution, translating and compiling an anthology of Nicaraguan working class poets. He currently teaches English composition and Spanish at Highland Community College in Illinois.