Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966) was a poet, editor, dramatist, and critic. He was one of the driving forces of the American literary scene during the times of modernism in the 1910s and 1920s. He had a love for chess and music, and his early writings on music and attempts to approximate music with words actually made him modern. In 1905, Kreymborg completed his first piece of literary writing. In 1913, he became acquainted with the Bohemians and the radicals in Greenwich Village. At this time he also gained his first editorial experience with Musical Advance and the Glebe. In 1915 he founded Others, and in 1920 Harold Loed invited him to become the editor of Broom, which he accepted. Kreymborg stayed with Broom until fall 1922.

Loeb, Harold Albert (1891-1974) was founder and chief editor of the Broom from 1921-1924. In 1917, he started working for the Sunwise bookstore in Greenwich Village, where he became acquainted with a number of writers and artists. Among them was Alfred Kreymborg, with whom he went to France to establish Broom. After editing Broom, Leob devoted his time mainly to writing. He wrote several novels, including Doodab (1925), The Professor like Vodka, and The Broom Anthology.

Matthew Josephson (1899-1978) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899. His chief concerns were nineteenth century French literature and American capitalism. He was editor for the Newark Ledger, co-founder and editor of Secession from 1922 to 1924, and associate editor of Broom. From 1928-29, he worked as American editor for transition. His main work of fiction is Zola and his time.

Lola Ridge (1873-1941) was more an emotional than an intellectual revolutionist. Her personality and her sympathy for the proletariat gave her considerable fame as a writer and a revolutionist in the 1920s. She kept Alfred Kreymborg’s Others alive at a time he wanted to give it up. From February 1922 until the magazine's end, she was American editor of Broom, which Loeb edited from Rome. One of her jobs was to run a Broom salon, where Intellectuals would meet and she would gather material for the Broom. Ridge had devoted herself utterly to Broom, refusing at times even to draw her salary. She stayed with Broom until it ceased publication.

Malcolm Cowley (1898- ) is best known as a critic and literary historian. He worked mainly on chronicling the activities and interpreting the works of American writers, who came to maturity during and after Worl War I. For a brief period in 1928 he helped Matthew Josephson edit Broom.

Compiled by Simone Muller, 1-year international student from Germany at Davidson College