Lynn Emanuel is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected. Her collection The Dig received the National Poetry Series Award. Emanuel's work has also been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been featured in several Best American Poetry anthologies and the Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Troy Jollimore is the author of several books of poetry and philosophy, as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006. His third, Syllabus of Errors, appeared on the New York Times' list of the best books of poetry published in 2015. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center in Palo Alto, California. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Chico.
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