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Dean Young

Dean Young's books include Elegy on Toy Piano, Embryoyo, and most recently Primitive Mentor. He begins teaching at the University of Texas at Austin as William Livingston Chair of Poetry this fall.

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James Shea

James Shea’s first book of poems, Star in the Eye, won the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series competition and will be published this fall. He lives in Chicago.

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Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty books including Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997–2015 and Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand. Five books are forthcoming: Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods, Frankenstein’s Children, Dear ReaderScar: A Trilogy, and Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at University of North Texas.

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Marlys West

Marlys West is author of Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr. The recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and an NEA grant in poetry, she lives in Santa Monica.

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John Kinsella

John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry include FirebreaksDrowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015, and a three-volume edition of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015. His volumes of stories include In the Shade of the Shady TreeCrow's Breath and Old Growth. His volumes of criticism include Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley and the recently released Polysituatedness. He is Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. With Tracy Ryan he is the co-editor of The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, published earlier this year. 

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Ashley Capps

Ashley Capps is author of Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields. New poems have appeared in Black Warrier Review, Granta, Columbia Poetry Review, and are forthcoming in Blackbird and H)NGM)N.

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Graham Foust

Graham Foust is author of Leave the Room to Itself, As in Every Deafness, and most recently Necessary Stranger. He is on the creative writing faculty at St. Mary's College of California.

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Stephanie Anderson

Stephanie Anderson is author four chapbooks: In the Particular Particular, The Choral Mimeographs, A Spot A Scheme, and The Nightyard.

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Zack Finch

Zack Finch is a doctoral candidate in the poetics program at the State University of New York at Buffalo and teaches periodically as a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Dartmouth College.

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Sarah Arvio

Sarah Arvio is author of two books of poems, Visits from the Seventh and Sono. A recipient of the Rome Prize and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, she currently teaches at Princeton.

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Daniel Tiffany

Daniel Tiffany is the author of nine books of poetry and literary criticism.  His latest collection of poems, Neptune Park (Omnidawn 2013), was selected by the Poetry Foundation as a notable book of 2013.  His critical books include Infidel Poetics:  Riddles, Nightlife, Substance (Chicago 2009) and My Silver Planet:  A Secret History of Kitsch and Poetry (Johns Hopkins 2014), a nominee for the Pegasus Prize in Poetry Criticism.  He has translated works by authors from French, Greek, and Italian.  He is a winner of the Chicago Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of a Whiting Fellowship and of the Berlin Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.  He lives in Los Angeles.

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Sean Norton

Sean Norton is the author of Bad With Faces. He is Assistant Director of the University of Michigan's Graduate Creative Writing Program

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Nicholas Harp

Nicholas Harp's poems have appeared in The Missouri Review and The Spoon River Poetry Review. He is a lecturer in English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Kristin S. vanNamen

Kristin S. vanNamen works for the Writer’s Garret in Dallas. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral award in prose.

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Robert von Hallberg

Robert von Hallberg is author of Lyric Powers and other volumes. He is Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

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Stacey D’Erasmo

Stacey D’Erasmo is author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, and The Sky Below. She is Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.

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Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is author of A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb.

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Gay James

Gay James, a writer who lived in New York City, passed away in 2007.

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Joseph Levine

Joseph Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been active in groups devoted to Palestinian Rights and a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1982.

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Lew Daly

Lew Daly is Senior Fellow at Demos and author of God and the Welfare State.

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Walter Falcon

Walter Falcon is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and Deputy Director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment.

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Sanford Levinson

Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book is Our Undemocratic Constitution.

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Rosamond Naylor

Rosamond Naylor is Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University.

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Frank R. Rijsberman

Frank R. Rijsberman is Program Director at Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. He was previously Director General of the International Water Management Institute.

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