• Wayne Miller (Editor of Pleiades, Co-Director of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, Co-Director of the Unsung Masters Series) is the author of three poetry collections: The City, Our City (Milkweed Editions, 2011), The Book of Props (2009), and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He is also coeditor of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/ Kevin Prufer) and Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Pleiades Unsung Masters, 2011; w/ Takako Lento), as well as translator of Moikom Zeqo’s I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007). He teaches at the University of Central Missouri. Wayne's personal website.
• Phong Nguyen (Editor of Pleiades, Co-Director of the Unsung Masters Series) is the author of the short-story collection Memory Sickness (Elixir Press, 2011), which won the Elixir Fiction Award, and co-editor of Nancy Hale: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master (Pleiades Unsung Masters, 2012; w/ Dan Chaon and Norah H. Lind) . He has published numerous short stories in Agni, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, Boulevard, Meridian, North American Review, and elsewhere, and teaches at the University of Central Missouri. Phong's personal website.
• Matthew Eck (Fiction Editor of Pleiades) is the author of the novel The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions, 2007), for which he was named one of “5 under 35” by the National Book Foundation. He teaches at the University of Central Missouri.
• Kathryn Nuernberger (Poetry Editor of Pleiades) is the author of the poetry collection Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), which won the Antivenom Prize. The recipient of a 2010 Intro Journals Award and a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, she teaches at the University of Central Missouri.
• Kevin Prufer (Pleiades & Pleiades Press Editor-at-Large, Co-Director of the Unsung Masters Series) is the author of five poetry collections, most recently In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011), National Anthem (2008) and Fallen From a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005). He is also coeditor, with Wayne Miller, of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and, with Joy Katz, of Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (University of Illinois, 2007), as well as editor of The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He teaches at the University of Houston. Kevin's personal website.
• Joy Katz (Pleiades & Pleiades Press Editor-at-Large) is the author of two poetry collections—Fabulae (Southern Illinois, 2002) and The Garden Room (Tupelo 2006)—as well as coeditor, with Kevin Prufer, of Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (University of Illinois, 2007). She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Susan Ludvigson (Co-Director of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize) is the author of several collections of poems, most recently Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2000), and Escaping the House of Certainty (Louisiana State University Press, 2006). She teaches at Winthrop University, where she founded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series.
• RM Kinder (Editor Emerita and Founder of Pleiades) is the author of the novel An Absolute Gentleman (Counterpoint, 2007) and the story collections A Near-Perfect Gift (University of Michigan, 2006) and Sweet Angel Band (Helicon Nine, 1991). RM's personal website.
