Henri Cole’s most recent book is Middle Earth, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A new collection, Blackbird and Wolf, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007.
Peter Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift and Hymns and Qualms, as well as many volumes of translations from medieval and contemporary Hebrew and Arabic. What Is Doubled: Poems, 1981–1998 was recently published by Shearsman Books (UK). Winner of the 2004 PENAmerica Translation Award, for J’Accuse, by Aharon Shabtai (New Directions), he lives in Jerusalem, where he co-edits Ibis Editions.
Deborah Garrison is the poetry editor of Alfred A. Knopf and the author of A Working Girl Can’t Win and Other Poems.
Judith Hall is the author of four books of poems, including Three Trios, forthcoming in November from Northwestern University Press. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as poetry editor of The Antioch Review and teaches at the California Institute of Technology and with the MFA in Poetry Program at New England College.
David Havird has published articles on James Dickey, Flannery O’Connor, Elizabeth Spencer, and Allen Tate. His recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and The Sewanee Review. He is professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana.
Galway Kinnell’s next collection, Strong Is Your Hold, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin this season. He has been awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship, among other honors. He has also translated the poems of Yves Bonnefoy, François Villon, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He lives in Vermont.
Elisabeth Ladenson teaches French and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Proust’s Lesbianism (Cornell, 1999) and the forthcoming Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial from “Madame Bovary” to “Lolita” (Cornell), from which her essay is adapted.
James Longenbach’s new book of poems, Draft of a Letter, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in April. This fall he is the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.
Robin Magowan’s most recent book of poems, The Rim of Dawn, was published this year.
Herbert Marder taught English literature and rhetoric at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf’s Last Years (Cornell University Press, 2000). He writes biographical essays and devotes part of his time to painting. He is also the author of an earlier book, Feminism and Art: A Study of Virginia Woolf.
Ben Miller was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1963. His prose has appeared in many literary journals, including Agni, Raritan, New Letters, The North American Review, The Western Humanities Review, The Common Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Fence. An essay – “Bix and Flannery” – was included in Best American Essays 2004. The recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in New York City.
Edison Miyawaki teaches neurology and psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He practices at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and divides his time between Massachusetts and Kansas City, Missouri. His book Love after Freud is forthcoming.
Robert F. Moss is a freelance arts journalist and critic. He is the author of four books and has published reviews and articles in The New York Times, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals.
Joyce Carol Oates is author of many novels and collections of stories – including most recently Missing Mom and High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1966– 2006 – as well as essays, poetry, and plays. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
Patrick Ryan’s first novel, Send Me, was published by The Dial Press this year. He is a recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, and a story of his will be included in Best American Stories 2006. He lives in New York City.
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetic trilogy, Seculum, is published by New Directions. In 2002 he won a Lannan Award for poetry.
Tom Sleigh is the author of five poetry collections, including Far Side of the Earth, as well as an essay collection, Interview with a Ghost (forthcoming from Graywolf Press) and a translation of Euripides’ Herakles. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Terese Svoboda’s most recent book of poetry is Treason (Zoo Press). Her work has been recently published in American Poetry Review and Tin House. She will be teaching poetry in Nairobi this December for the Summer Literary Seminars.
D. H. Tracy’s poetry and criticism appear widely. He lives in Illinois and works for the Poetry Foundation.
Rachel Wetzsteon is the author of three books of poems, most recently Sakura Park (Persea 2006), as well as a forthcoming critical study of W. H. Auden. She received the 2001 Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and teaches literature and writing at William Paterson University.
Stephen Yenser’s Blue Guide, a volume of poems, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. His previous collection, The Fire in All Things, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. The author of three critical books and the co-editor of James Merrill’s collected work, he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Timothy Young, a curator at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University, was awarded a Leab prize for his 2005 exhibition catalogue, J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan: A Children’s Guide.