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"Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of Something About Living, winner of the 2024 National Book Award and the 2022 Akron Prize for Poetry; Kaan & Her Sisters, finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Arab American Book Award; and Water & Salt, winner of the 2018 Washington State Book Award and honorable mention for the 2018 Arab American Award.
Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories. She is the recipient of a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2023, she received The Alaska Literary Award and support from The Rasmuson Foundation. She was a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, and an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023."
(Descriptions from the U of A Poetry Center Website).