Jul 8, 2023
Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars. She has also published eleven volumes of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports and Because What Else Could I Do, which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her previous books of poetry include the paired volumes Day Unto Day and Night Unto Night, as well as a trilogy of works that focus on race, beginning with the book-length poem, Blue Front. Collins has published three additional volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry and coedited a number of volumes, including, with Kevin Prufer, Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries. Founder of the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts Boston and former Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, Collins lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jul 8, 2023
Charles Coe is the author of four poetry collections: Picnic on the Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for My Parents, Memento Mori, and his new collection, Purgatory Road . His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous newspapers and literary reviews and magazines, and his poems have been set to music by composers Julia Carey, Beth Denisch and Robert Moran. Charles also writes feature articles, book reviews and interviews for publications such as Harvard Magazine, Northeastern University Law Review and the Boston Phoenix. In addition to his work as a writer, Charles has an extensive background as a jazz vocalist and has performed and recorded with numerous musicians in the Boston area and throughout New England.
Jul 8, 2023
Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours, Purple Gallinule, Of Annunciations, Contraband of Hoopoe, and Strata, as well as three books in Polish. She also translated selected books by Jack London, Joseph Conrad, I.B. Singer as well as the book of selected poems by Jorie Graham, and selected poems of Kazim Ali, Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, and other American poets into Polish. She is a Prof. of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College.
Jul 8, 2023
Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer who works at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history, and the speculative imagination. They are the author of three books: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Soft Science, and Floating, Brilliant, Gone. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Elgin Award, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. In 2016, Choi founded Brew & Forge, a project to build connections between writers and movement workers. They are currently at work on an essay collection about race, feminism, and robots.
Jul 8, 2023
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.
