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Martha Ronk

Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry, Glass Grapes and other stories, and a food-biography, Displeasures of the Table. Her most recent books include Ocular Proof 2016, on photography, and Transfer of Qualities, long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry.

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Brett Fletcher Lauer

Brett Fletcher Lauer is the author of the memoir Fake Missed Connections: Divorce, Online Dating, and Other Failures (Soft Skull, 2016) and A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, 2014). He​ is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor of A Public Space.

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Kristin Fitzsimmons

Kristin Fitzsimmons is an Americorps member at the Jane Addams Hull House Association. She received her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2008.

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Ken White

Ken White lives in Missoula, Montana.

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Caroline Knox

Caroline Knox’s most recent books include Quaker Guns, He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, and A Beaker: New and Selected Poems.

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Mathias Svalina

Mathias Svalina is Co-Editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. His first book, Destruction Myth, is forthcoming.

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Joseph Campana

Joseph Campana is author of The Book of Faces. He teaches Renaissance literature at Rice University and is completing a new collection called Sheltering Bough.

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Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder is author of two collections of poems as well as co-translator of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu.

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Brian Teare

Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of six critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion GrassesThe Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize. His honors include the Birittingham Prize and Lambda Literay and Publishing Triangle Awards, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

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Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson is Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her 2007 poetry collection, Magnetic North, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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David Baker

David Baker’s forthcoming collection, Swift: New and Selected Poems, will appear in spring of 2019 from W. W. Norton. He is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University in Granville, Ohio

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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is an American poet. His books include So To Speak, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, and Lighthead, which won the National Book Award for Poetry.

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Anne Carson

Anne Carson's most recent book is a translation of Iphigenia Among the Taurians.

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Jeff Madrick

Jeff Madrick is Editor of Challenge magazine and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. He is the author of The Case for Big Government and Age of Greed.

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Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett has written many books, including Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation, The Fall of Public Man, and The Culture of the New Capitalism.

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Cecily Parks

Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow (2008) and O'Nights (2015), and editor of The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (2016)She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University.

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Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is author of several books, including What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?.

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Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood and The Real Horse. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. 

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Don Bogen

Don Bogen is author of, most recently, An Algebra. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

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Julio Martínez Mesanza

Julio Marínez Mesanza was born in Madrid in 1955. His books include Europa, Las trincheras, and Soy en mayo, appeared in 2007.

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Maureen N. McLane

Maureen N. McLane’s most recent book is My Poets. She is Associate Professor of English at New York University.

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Lucas Farrell

Lucas Farrell is Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing at Middlebury College. He helps edit the online poetry journal Slope.

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Michael Loughran

Michael Loughran’s poems have appeared in Tin House, American Letters & Commentary, Harvard Review, jubilat, Octopus, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Robert Murdock

Robert Murdock is Contributing Editor for The Journal and the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2009. His poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, and elsewhere.

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