Jonathan Weinert is the author of IN THE MODE OF DISAPPEARANCE (Nightboat Books, 2008), winner of the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems appear in numerous literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, American Letters and Commentary, and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.
Kevin Prufer is the author of five poetry collections, the most recent of which are In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), named one of the five best poetry collections of the year by Publishers Weekly. The editor of numerous volumes, he is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.