About the Author

Elizabeth Cohen holds an MFA from Columbia University and is an English professor at SUNY/Plattsburgh State University, where she teaches Creative Writing (Poetry), Autobiographical Writing (Memoir) and serves as a co-editor of the Saranac Review. She is the author of four previous books and chapbooks of poetry, a book of short stories, The Hypothetical Girl, and a memoir, The Family on Beartown Road, among other books. Her poems, articles, stories, and essays have appeared in Northwest Review, Exquisite Corpse, Ellipses, Yale Review, SELF, MORE, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet, and other publications. To learn more, please go to http: //www.elizabethcohen.me. Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her visual art has appeared in New Letters and Tiferet. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently, Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), and the translator ofThe Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006). Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a forward by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie- Mellon University Press reissued her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary. Her awards include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View. She serves as Poet Laureate of Missouri and is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. To learn more, please go to www.alikibarnstone.com.