Karen Lepri is the author of Incidents of Scattering (Noemi, 2013) and the chapbook Fig. I (Horse Less Press, 2012). Lepri was the recipient of 2012 Noemi Poetry Prize. Lepri holds an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her poems, translations, & reviews have appeared in 1913, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing and literature.

Camden Joy has read at Unnameable Books and Housing Works, performed at Pianos and The HiFi Bar, and repeatedly appeared on WFMU. He was the keynote speaker of the 2013 Midwest Modern Language Association conference in Milwaukee, WI and the subject of a Jan 2014 profile in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has authored three critically-acclaimed novellas, Hubcap Diamondstar Halo, Pan, and Palm Tree 13 (all three from Highwater Books, 2002), as well as two novels, The Last Rock Star Book Or, Liz Phair: A Rant (Verse Chorus Press, 1998), and Boy Island (Quill/Morrow, 2000). He came to prominence initially through a series of street postering projects he undertook in the City of New York from 1995 to 1997. These projects, which are gathered in Lost Joy (TNI Books, 2002; Verse Chorus Press, 2015), used poster-length manifestos to celebrate various musical acts of true artistry.

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