Elinor Nauen:  is the author of Cars and Other Poems, American Guys, My Marriage A to Z, So Late into the Night, Snowbound, and Now That I Know Where I’m Going, and edited Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball and Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road.  She ruminates at ElinorNauen.com

Eileen Myles:  (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet.  Their books include, For Now, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, and Chelsea Girls. Pathetic Literature which they edited will be out from Grove in fall 2022.  Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2021 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.  They live in New York and Marfa, Texas.

Bernadette Mayer:  is the author of over thirty books including the acclaimed Midwinter Day (1982), a book-length poem written during a single day in Lenox, Massachusetts, as well as the The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), and Works and Days (2016) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.  Most recently, Siglio Press reprinted Memory a long prose poem and included for the first time over 1000 photographs taken by Mayer in the 1970s.  Learn more at BernadetteMayer.com

Gerard Malanga:  was born in The Bronx in 1943.  He is the author of 14 books of poetry, the latest being The New Mélancholia & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press).  His latest project is a limited edition portfolio box titled, 10 Musicians (also Bottle of Smoke Press).  He lives in the shadow of the Catskills in upstate New York with Odie, his 20-year-old cat, born cross-eyed with perfect vision.