Ed Madden is the author of six books of poetry, most recently A pooka in Arkansas (Word Works 2023), selected by Timothy Liu for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, and A story of the city (Muddy Ford 2023), a collection of poems from his work as the inaugural poet laureate for Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. A professor of English and former director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, he was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2019 and in 2022 received the South Carolina Governor's Award for the Arts.
Kevin McLellan is the author of in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu), Ornitheology (Massachusetts Book Awards recipient), Tributary, Round Trip and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. He is also a video artist: Dick won Best Short Form Short at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival. Kevin lives in Cambridge. https://kevmclellan.com/