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Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2024, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of […]
Asali Solomon’s first novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. Her debut story collection, Get Down, earned her […]
Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, Optic Subwoof, a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures, won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism […]
Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and […]
MARY JO SALTER is the Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of nine previous poetry collections and a children’s book, and is […]
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. It was also a finalist […]
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, essayist, and editor, and the author of four poetry collections—The Ground, Heaven, Living Weapon, and Silver—as well as the nonfiction book The Circuit: A […]
Matt Morton is the author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith (BOA Editions 2020), and the chapbook What Passes Here for Mountains (Carnegie […]
Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. She is the author of the novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (Pantheon) and the short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians (Viking) which […]