Alice Notley:  has published over forty books of poetry, including (most recently) Eurynome’s Sandals and For the Ride.  An art book called Runes and Chords is forthcoming.  She has lived in Paris, France for almost thirty years, somehow remaining American, with ties to New York and also the Mojave Desert.

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