Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia and received his BA from Yale University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Yale Review, Missouri Review, and AGNI. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books of poetry and a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020.