December 16, 2021

Carolyne Wright’s latest books are Masquerade, a memoir in poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2021) and This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse, 2017), whose title poem received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009. A Seattle native who has lived and taught all over the country, and on fellowships in Chile, Brazil, India and Bangladesh, she has 16 earlier books and anthologies of poetry, essays, and translation. Carolyne has received NEA and 4Culture grants, and a Fulbright Scholar Award.

Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with work published in The Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pearl, Isthmus, Cafe Irreal, and Gold Man Review. She is the author of Sex with Buildings, How Formal?, The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior, and most recently Rescue Plan . In 2022 she will publish Pretend Plumber with Inlandia Books and City Slicker: Encounters with the Outside with Bamboo Dart Press.