Chelsea Harlan was born and raised in Appalachia. She holds
a BA in Literature and Visual Art from Bennington College, as well as an MFA in
Poetry from Brooklyn College. Her chapbook Mummy, written in collaboration with
London-based painter Daisy Parris, was released by Montez Press in 2019, and
her chapbook Country Music was released from Two Plum Press. She received the
2021 Robert Watson Literary Award from The Greensboro Review for her poem “Some
Sunlight,” and she received the 2019-2020 Mikrokosmos Poetry Prize for her poem
“Grimaldo’s Chair,” selected by sam sax.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Tradition, Jericho Brown earned his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland. His first book, Please (New Issues), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal. Brown is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.