Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. His other poetry collections are So to Speak, How to Be Drawn, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. He is also the author of To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight, winner of the 2019 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at New York University.
Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in Fall of 22. a “Working Life”, their newest collection of poems, is out now. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.
Louise Glück authored thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays. She received many honors for her work, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Bollingen Prize, Wallace Stevens Award, Lannan Literary Award, National Humanities Medal, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She judged the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize from 2003-2010 and was Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program.