Andrei Codrescu‘s recent books are “No Time like Now” (Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press), “The Collected Poems of Lucian Blaga,” translated from the Romanian (Black Widow Press), and “The Japanese Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn” (Princeton University Press.) Codrescu writes poetry, fiction, and essays. He was a commentator on NPR from 1983-2017, and a Distinguished Professor of Sedition at LSU in Baton Rouge.

KC Trommer is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) and is the founder of the online audio project QUEENSBOUND. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Antioch Review, Blackbird, The Common, LitHub, Prairie Schooner, The Sycamore Review, VIDA, and in the anthologies Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Who Will Speak for America? (Temple University Press, 2018). She is the Assistant Director of Communications at NYU Gallatin and lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her son. 

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