Participants

Dan Albergotti’s first full-length collection, The Boatloads, won the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

Nin Andrews is the editor of a book of translations, Someone Wants to Steal My Name. She is also the author of several poetry books, including Sleeping with Houdini, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane (featuring short shorts and prose poems), and Why They Grow Wings.

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Quique Aviles, a contributor to How I Learned English, is a DC-based poet, actor and community activist. Born in El Salvador, his work is dedicated to addressing social issues through performance and poetry.

Joseph Awad served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1998 to 2000. His books include The Neon Distances, Shenandoah Long Ago, The Big Bang, Leaning to Hear the Music, and Late into the Night.

Aaron Baker is the author of Mission Work, winner of the 2007 Bakeless Prize in Poetry. A UVa alumnus and former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, he teaches literature and creative writing at Hollins University.

Kevin Boyle grew up in Philadelphia and now lives in North Carolina with his wife and two daughters. His first book, A Home for Wayward Girls, won the New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Rodney Jones.

Nickole Brown's books include Sister: Poems and the anthology, Air Fare (co-edited with Judith Taylor). She graduated from Vermont College and was the editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson. She works at Sarabande Books in Louisville.

John Carpenter is a poet and literary critic, author of Creating the World and a study of the literature of WWII. Among translations the Carpenters have done as a team are seven volumes of poetry and prose by Zbigniew Herbert.

Bogdana Carpenter is Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her translation, with John Carpenter, of Julia Hartwig's In Praise of the Unfinished was recently published by Random House.

Jennifer Chang, author of The History of Anonymity, has published poems in the Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Republic, Shenandoah, and other publications. She co-chairs the advisory board member of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization for Asian American poetry.

Randall Couch translated and edited the bilingual edition Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral. Recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship, his poems have been anthologized in Best New Poets of 2005.

Kyle Dargan is managing editor of Callaloo and a member of the creative writing faculty at American University. His debut, The Listening, won the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Bouquet of Hungers is his second poetry collection.

Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (a 1991 National Poetry Series Selection), Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, and Backwards Days. A grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the M.F.A. writing program at Greensboro.

Johanna Drucker, author of Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, has published and lectured extensively on topics related to the history of typography, artists' books, and visual art. She is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at UVa and advises Artists' Books Online.

Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife. She is the author of two other poetry books, Pharaoh, Pharaoh and Pinion: An Elegy. She is a professor of English at the University of Mary Washington.