Nicholas Manning is Professor of American Literature at the University of Grenoble in France. Residing in Lyon, he is the founding editor of The Continental Review, and the author of the poetry collections Novaless. Elements Towards a Metaphysic, and Homo Sentimentalis. A Guide In Verse To Modern Emotional Intimacy, both from Otoliths Books. Among his critical work, his study of sincerity in twentieth century poetics, entitled Rhétorique de la sincérité. La poésie moderne en quête d'un langage vrai, was published by Honoré Champion, and his book with Clément Oudart on H.D.’s poetry, entitled Signs of Eternity: H.D.’s Trilogy, appeared from Fahrenheit Books.
Jordan Stempleman is the author of nine collections of poetry including Cover Songs (the Blue Turn), Wallop, and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press). In addition to editing The Continental Review, he is an editor for Windfall Room, faculty advisor for the literary arts magazine Sprung Formal, and runs A Common Sense Reading Series. In 2013, The Huffington Post listed Stempleman as one of “The Top 200 Advocates of American Poetry.” He is an associate professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.