Lee Briccetti is the author of Blue Guide (Four Way Books, 2018) and Day Mark (Four Way Books, 2005). A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she received an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry and a poetry fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Briccetti has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, The Millay Colony, and the American Academy in Rome. She is the long-time Executive Director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City.
Suzanne Cleary is the author of the poetry collections Crude Angel (BkMk Press, 2018); Beauty Mark (BkMk Press, 2013), selected by Kevin Prufer for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry; Trick Pear (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007); and Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002). Her other awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry London, Georgia Review, New Ohio Review, and Poetry International, and anthologies including Best American Poetry. She is a core faculty member of the Converse College low-residency MFA program in creative writing. Her website is suzanneclearypoet.com.
Estha Weiner is the author of At the Last Minute (Salmon Poetry, 2019), In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Transfiguration Begins at Home (Tiger Bark Press, 2009), and The Mistress Manuscript (Asheville Book Works, 2009). She is co-editor of Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (The University of Akron Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street. Winner of a Paterson Prize, and a Visiting Scholar at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford, England, Estha is founding director of the Sarah Lawrence NY Alumni Writers Nights, and an Advisory Board member of Slapering Hol Press at the Hudson Valley Writers Center. She is a Professor at City College of the City University of New York, and at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.