Bob Lucky was educated at Dartmouth College and holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He currently lives and works in Saudi Arabia. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals such as Flash, Rattle, KYSO Flash, Modern Haiku and Haibun Today. His chapbook "Ethiopian Time" (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014, ) a collection of haibun, tanka prose and prose poetry, was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. He is an editor at Contemporary Haibun Online.

KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.

Tony Bailie is from Northern Ireland. He has had two previous collections published, "Coill" and "The Tranquillity of Stone", both by Lapwing Publications. Two novels, "The Lost Chord" and "ecopunks", were published by Lagan Press. His novella "A Verse To Murder" is available as an ebook. He works as a journalist, travel writer and environmental columnist for The Irish News in Belfast. The selection of poems included in this book won James Tate International Poetry Prize 2019.

Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland, although his family hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland. A former researcher, he has, more recently, been teaching creative writing to adults. His poems appeared in many magazines and anthologies, both in Ireland and abroad. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.

Alexander Korotko is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet from Kyiv. Born in Korosten, Ukraine, he studied economics at Odessa University. His first collection, ?Window?, was published in 1989. Since then he has published more than twenty books of his poetry, including some in translation into English, French, Ukrainian, and Hebrew.

Afric McGlinchey is an Irish-born, multi-award-winning poet based in West Cork. Raised in several countries in Africa, she has a close affinity with that continent. Afric is a post-graduate of English Literature and film (University of Cape Town), and studied journalism at Rhodes University. Previous collections include ""The Lucky Star of Hidden Things"" and ""Ghost of the Fisher Cat"" (Salmon Poetry). Her d?but was further translated into Italian and published by L?Arcolaio. A consulting editor with The Inkwell Group and a creative writing facilitator, she also reviews for a number of journals. According to Vona Groarke, she ""...moves really beautifully between strangeness and familiarity. What's also particularly striking is the tone and register of the language and how the flow carries you along with it.""

Mikko Harvey is the author of "Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit" (House of Anansi Press, 2018). He recently received the 2017 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He currently lives in New York City, where he serves as the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers Magazine. Jake Bauer serves as poetry editor for The Journal. His poems have recently appeared in DIAGRAM, Threepenny Review, The Bennington Review, and RHINO, among others. He lives in Philadelphia.