Susan Howe’s books of poetry include The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems, Pierce-Arrow, and The Midnight (all New Directions). She has also authored several books of literary criticism, My Emily Dickinson (North Atlantic Books) and The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (Wesleyan).

Cole Swensen’s recent books include Art in Time (Nightboat) and And And And (Shearsman Books); her next, Veer, will be published by Alice James Books in 2026. Earlier works have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the SF State Poetry Center Book Award. Recipient of the 2025 Paul Engle Prize, she is also a translator and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize. She divides her time between California and France.