Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, a work of decadent ecopoetics. With Johannes Goransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others....
Ada Limón
ADA LIMÓN grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University's MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006) , This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007) , and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010) . She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.
Joyelle McSweeney
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, a work of decadent ecopoetics. With Johannes Goransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others....
Ada Limón
ADA LIMÓN grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University's MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006) , This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007) , and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010) . She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.