Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. Her most recent collection of poetry, Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books 2015), was a finalist for the 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Poetry. Griffiths’ third collection of poetry, Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose), was selected as the winner of the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Griffiths’ literary and visual work has appeared widely including The New York Times, LA Review of Books, Poets & Writers, American Poetry Review, Guernica, Transition, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and many others. Her visual work has been exhibited nationally and is included in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Currently, American Stanzas: 2006-2016, a showcase of photography and mixed media, is on exhibition at Poets House.

Chris Jackson is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of One World, a just re-launched imprint of Random House. Previously, Jackson was an Executive Editor at Spiegel & Grau from its founding in 2006, where he edited prize-winning and bestselling authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Eddie Huang, Jill Leovy, Matt Taibbi, Victor LaValle, and Jay Z. His forthcoming One World authors include Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Alex Wagner, Quiara Hudes, Molly Crabapple, Marwan Hisham, and Binyavanga Wainaina.  His own writing has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, The Paris Review, and Callaloo among other places. Jackson is a native of New York, where he currently resides.