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Jennifer Grotz's debut collection, Cusp (Mariner Books, 2003) received the Texas Institute of Letter's Bakeless Prize and the Best First Book of Poetry Award. Her most recent book, The Needle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), explores both Polish and American twentieth-century poetry and its traditions. She currently teaches at the University of Rochester and serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Lisa Jarnot is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003) and Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming in 2012. She currently lives in Sunnyside, New York and works as a freelance horticulturist.
Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) selected by C.D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award. His latest book is Becoming Weather (Coffee House Press, 2011). After moving from Colorado to Minnesota to San Francisco, he currently resides in New York, where he is an editor at Futurepoem and teaches children and adults with learning differences.
Ana Božicevic is the program manager at the Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her first book of poems Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) was a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry finalist. She was recently honored by Feminist Press at their "40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism" gala.
Jennifer Chang Jennifer Chang's first book, The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia Press, 2008), was an inaugural selection of the VQR Poetry Series. Chang has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and is a University of Virginia Ph.D. candidate.
CAConrad CA Conrad is the author of the forthcoming A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012). His latest books include The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), and a collaboration with Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined (Factory School Press, 2010). He lives in Philadelphia.
Cedar Sigo San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo is the author of several books of poetry including his latest, Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010). Sigo was awarded a scholarship to study writing and poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Rosanna Warren, a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the poetry editor of Daedalus. She is the author of several books, including her latest, Ghost in a Red Hat (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011). Warren has won the Lamont Poetry Prize and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. She was the New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome and is currently Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University.
Dara Wier's numerous collections of poetry have been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The American Poetry Review. Her latest book is Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009). In 2005, Wier held the Rubin Distinguished Chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She currently directs the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium (Anhinga Press, 2004), which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Last Usable Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series. She co-hosts the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com and is the Director of the New York University Creative Writing Program.
Srikanth Reddy's first book of poetry is Facts for Visitors (University of California Press, 2004). Reddy's awards include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Mellon Foundation. Reddy is the literacy director for the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. He also teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Chicago.
Atsuro Riley is the author of Romey's Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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