Jesús Castillo is the author of the poetry collection Remains (McSweeney’s, 2016). He has received fellowships from the University of Iowa, the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Tasajillo Writers’ Residency. His poems have appeared in the Boston Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series, the Porter House Review, and other publications. He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Callie Garnett is the author of the chapbooks Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse) and On Knowingness (The Song Cave). Her poems have appeared in the PEN Poetry Series, the Poetry Foundation, No Tokens, The Recluse, and elsewhere. She works as an Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing.

John Keene is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. He graduated from the St. Louis Priory School, Harvard College, and New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. In 1989, Mr. Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations, and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions, as well as several other works, including the poetry collection Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships—including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.

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