About the Poets:

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Northern California. She has been publishing poetry and fiction for 50 years. Her recent titles include Which Walks (2025), Personal Volcano (2019), Who That Divines (2014), all from Nightboat Books. She lives in Richmond, CA.

Kevin Holden is a poet, translator, and essayist. His books include Pink Noise (2023), Solar (2015), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch (2015), which won the Ahsahta Press Chapbook Award. He is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.