Jessica Jacobs' debut collection, Pelvis with Distance, won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, was an ALA Over the Rainbow selection, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Julie Suk Awards. She the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going and In Whatever Light Left to Us. Jacobs holds a B.A. from Smith College, and an M.F.A. from Purdue University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Sycamore Review. Her work has appeared in Orion, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and Guernica. Jessica leads workshops around the country, and is Chapbook Editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives in Asheville, NC, with her wife, poet Nickole Brown.

Nickole Brown received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. Her first collection, Sister, was published in 2007 and reissued in 2018; followed by Fanny Says (2015) and The Donkey Elegies (2020.)

She was Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is currently Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series, while teaching at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC.