Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977. He is the author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa and co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine, and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. His work was the finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award.

Elisabeth Condon creates paintings and works on paper that overlap natural and built environments by referencing décor, abstraction, and scrolls. Linking Asian ink-and-brush painting to the wallpapers of her childhood home, Condon incorporates bird and flower patterns in paintings and public art. Condon's paintings are held in the collections of Hudson River Museum, Tampa Museum of Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, United States Embassy Beijing, and numerous private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and Florida Individual Artist Fellowship.