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Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist, and memoirist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, a 2024 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE; and A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021. Martin was a 2022 United States Artist Fellow, the inaugural Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the founding Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Currently, she is Professor & Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and is writing a memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books.
Juliana Spahr is a poet and scholar whose books of poetry include Ars Poeticas, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; That Winter the Wolf Came; Well Then There Now; The Transformation; This Connection of Everyone with Lungs; Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You; and Response, which won a National Poetry Series Award. She has edited several volumes of essays and poetry, including Writing from the New Coast, and with Claudia Rankine, American Women Poets in the 21st Century. Spahr founded and coedited the literary journal Chain with Jena Osman, and coedited Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. She is currently on the faculty of Mills College at Northeastern University.
