Participant(s) Bio
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction and journalism. Penguin published Ghost Girl, her most recent book of poems, in 2004, and will publish her book Dearest Creature in October, 2009. Her previous twelve books include Medicine; Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award, Nerve Storm, and Bitter Angel, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, several volumes of Best American Poetry and the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry.
Poet Juan Felipe Herrera is a lover of experiment, hybrid genres and good flour tortillas. His poetry was sparked by his parent's farm-worker corridos and flourished in the civil rights movement of the 60's. In additional to his twenty-four published works Juan Felipe's recent books are Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 2009, and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments, which won the 2008 Pen National Poetry Award and the 2008 Pen/Oakland Josephine Miles National Poetry Award. He is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at UC-Riverside.
http://www.juanfelipe.org
Ilya Kaminsky, was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1993. He is the author of Dancing In Odessa which won the Whiting Writer's Award,and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. In 2008, he was awarded Lannan Foundation's Literary Fellowship. His anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, "Ecco Book of International Poetry," will be published in 2010. Currently, he teaches Contemporary World Poetry, Creative Writing, and Literary Translation in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University
http://www.ilyakaminsky.com
Robert N. Casper is the Programs Director at the Poetry Society of America. He is also Publisher of the literary magazine jubilat and Co-Founder of the jubilat/Jones Reading Series in Amherst, MA. He lives in Brooklyn.
www.poetrysociety.org
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