The Rupture Tense

From From

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books, including Works &amp; Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, a Barnes &amp; Noble Review Best Book, and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, is forthcoming in 2023 from Copper Canyon. His writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the MacDowell Foundation. Rader is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry.

Dean Rader

Victoria Chang is the author of OBIT, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her latest book is The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch’s MFA program.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang is the author of OBIT, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her latest book is The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch’s MFA program.