<h4>TINA CHANG is the Brooklyn Poet Laureate. Author of the poetry collections <i>Half-Lit Houses (2004)</i> and <i>Of Gods &amp; Strangers (2011)</i>, she is also co-editor of the anthology <i>Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond</i>  (W.W. Norton, 2008). She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and she is also a member of the international writing faculty at the City University of Hong Kong, the first low-residency MFA program to be established in Asia.</h4>

Tina Chang

<h4>TERRANCE HAYES is the author of <i>Lighthead</i> (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are <i>Wind In a Box</i> (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), and <i>Muscular Music</i> (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Zell Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. <i>How To Be Drawn</i>, his new collection of poems, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2015.</h4>

Terrance Hayes

<h4>REBECCA HAZELTON is the author of <i>Fair Copy</i> (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / <i>The Journal</i> Award in Poetry, and <i>Vow</i>, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / <i>Boston Review</i> 2012 Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in <i>Poetry, The Southern Review, The Boston Review, AGNI</i>, and <i>Best American Poetry 2013</i>.</h4>

Rebecca Hazelton

<h4>RANDALL MANN’s third collection of poems, <i>Straight Razor</i>, was recently published by Persea Books. He lives in San Francisco.</h4>

Randall Mann

<h4>WAYNE MILLER is the author of four poetry collections, most recently <i>The City, Our City</i> (Milkweed, 2011)—which was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award and the Rilke Prize—and  <i>Post-</i>, which Milkweed will publish in 2016. He has also translated two books by Moikom Zeqo, including the forthcoming <i>Zodiac</i> (Zephyr, 2015), and co-edited three books, including <i>New European Poets</i> (Graywolf, 2008) and the forthcoming <i>Literary Publishing in the 21st Century</i> (Milkweed, 2015). He lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits <i>Pleiades</i>.</h4>

Wayne Miller

<h4>FARID MATUK is the author of<i> This Is a Nice Neighborhood</i> (Letter Machine 2010) and <i>My Daughter La Chola</i> (Ahsahta 2013). New poems appear in <i>The Baffler, Denver Quarterly</i>, and <i>Iowa Review</i>. Matuk teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. </h4>

Farid Matuk

<h4>ALAN MICHAEL PARKER is the author of seven collections of poems, including <i>Long Division</i> (Tupelo, 2012); his third novel, <i>The Committee on Town Happiness</i>, will be published by Dzanc Books in June, 2014. His has received three Pushcart Prizes, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award in Poetry for <i>Long Division</i>. Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the University of Tampa low-residency M.F.A. program.</h4>

Alan Michael Parker

<h4 style="text-align: left;">Michael Klein is the author of several collections of poetry. His last book, <i>then, we were still living,</i> was a Lambda Literary Finalist, and his first book, <i>1990</i>, tied with James Schuyler to win the Lambda Literary award in 1993. His most recent book of poems, <i>The Talking Day</i>, was published in January 2013. Recent work appears in <i>Tin House</i>, <i>Ploughshares</i>, and <i>The Ocean State Review</i>.</h4>

Michael Klein

<h4>Erika Meitner is the author of three books of poems, including <em>Ideal Cities</em> (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner, and <em>Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls</em> (Anhinga Press, 2011). Her fourth collection of poems, <em>Copia</em>, is due out from BOA Editions in 2014.&nbsp;You can find her online at <a href="http://www.erikameitner.com/">www.erikameitner.com</a>.</h4>
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FARID MATUK is the author of<i> This Is a Nice Neighborhood</i> (Letter Machine 2010) and <i>My Daughter La Chola</i> (Ahsahta 2013). New poems appear in <i>The Baffler, Denver Quarterly</i>, and <i>Iowa Review</i>. Matuk teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. 

Farid Matuk

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