was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and came to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine. In 2008, he was awarded Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship. In 2009, poems from his new manuscript, Deaf Republic, were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. His anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, was published by Harper Collins in March, 2010.

her twenty – four books include her Beat memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones; Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, (Five Women in Black Music), honored by the New York Public Library; No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita; From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin); and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Her short prose has been published in Fence, The Village Voice, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens At The Border, a poetry collection from her workshop (1989–2002) at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School and at the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center, and serves on the PEN Advisory Council.

is a Los Angeles based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, bookmaker, public letter – writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti – war – manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). Recent poems and translations have appeared in Aufgabe, Mandorla, Or, out of nothing, and TRY. She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter. She is a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

born in New York City in 1943 he earned his B.A. in literature from Bard College and went on to study poetry with Robert Lowell and folklore with Alan Dundes. The author of more than 20 chapbooks and volumes of poetry, he has run Gnomon Press since 1965. He currently works as a freelance designer in Kentucky. He has received many design awards, including honors from the American Association of University Presses, the Chicago Book Clinic, the Midwest Book Show, and the Southern Books Competition.