Carol Muske-Dukes is a the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Blue Rose (Penguin, 2018). Other publications include Sparrow (Random House, 2004), a National Book Award finalist, Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2003) and Crossing State Lines: an American Renga (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2011), co-edited with Bob Holman. She is professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Southern California where she founded the PhD Program in CW/Lit. Former Poet Laureate of the state of California, she has been the recipient of many awards & honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA grant, and Library of Congress award.
Jane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently World Of Made and Unmade (Alice James, 2016) which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her poems appear regularly in journals and anthologies, and she's the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years she was a Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, and she has taught as a visiting writer at Washington University, Colby College and most recently, The University of Iowa.
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