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Monica Ferrell is the author of four books of fiction and poetry, including the forthcoming The Future (March 2026) and the collection You Darling Thing (2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes (Dial Press/Random House) was named one of Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has been recognized with residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA Programs at Columbia University and Bennington College, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). She was born in Delhi, India, and divides her time between Vermont and New York. Author photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Army of Giants, published by Wave Books. He has received a Hopwood Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Believer Book Award for his book The Others, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, won the National Poetry Series and was selected by Mary Oliver. One of his tattoos has appeared in 2 books of literary tattoos. He is a co-founder of Fence Magazine and teaches poetry at NYU. Author photo by Gary Kenney.
