Abram Van Engen is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published widely on puritanism and poetry for scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. He is the author of Sympathetic Puritans (2015) and City on a Hill (2020), which won two national awards and was supported by multiple fellowships. Most recently he has written Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church (2024), which won a Best Book award from Christianity Today. It builds on a popular podcast he co-hosts called Poetry For All.

Mary Eyring is Associate Chair of the Department of English and Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University, where she specializes in early American women's writing. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and is a Consultant Reader for LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers. Her scholarship on early American letters and life has appeared in a variety of publications.