Prageeta Sharma is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent collection is Onement Won, out from Wave Books (September, 2025). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Creative Writing, and Artistic and Aesthetic Practices, a recent recipient of the 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and is currently the Henry G. Lee ’37 professor of English at Pomona College. Author photo by Mike Stussy.

Poet, essayist, and translator Jennifer Moxley’s most recent books are The Midnight Work (poems), Marie Uguay’s Journal (translation), and For the Good of All Do Not Destroy the Birds (essays). Her 2015 book The Open Secret received the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She lives in Maine with her husband, scholar Steve Evans, and teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine.