A former Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Poets' Prize, Sydney Lea served as founding editor of New England Review and was Vermont's Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015. Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, co-founder and former program director of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry, a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust, is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont.