JESSICA CUELLO

JESSICA CUELLO is the author of Liar (Barrow Street Press, 2021) selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize. She is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). She has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She teaches French in Central NY and is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review. https://jessicacuello.com/

KATHERINE E. YOUNG

KATHERINE E. YOUNG is the author of Woman Drinking Absinthe (Alan Squire Publishing, 2021) and Day of the Border Guards (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), finalist for the 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize, and the editor of Written in Arlington (Paycock Press, 2020). She is the translator of Anna Starobinets, Akram Aylisli, Inna Kabysh, and numerous Russophone poets; she was named a 2017 NEA translation fellow. She served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, VA. https://katherine-young-poet.com/