Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020) ; Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) ; The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015) , winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005) , winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Image, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, the Washington Post, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares,...
Alex Aster
Alex Aster is the author of Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch, the first of a series inspired by the stories her Colombian grandmother used to tell her before bedtime. She recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English and consumer psychology. Alex also has an identical twin sister who is unfortunately not an author (because that would make writing her books so much easier...) but has an adorable miniature poodle to make up for it. Explore her books at www.asterverse.com.
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020) ; Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) ; The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015) , winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005) , winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Image, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, the Washington Post, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares,...
Alex Aster
Alex Aster is the author of Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch, the first of a series inspired by the stories her Colombian grandmother used to tell her before bedtime. She recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English and consumer psychology. Alex also has an identical twin sister who is unfortunately not an author (because that would make writing her books so much easier...) but has an adorable miniature poodle to make up for it. Explore her books at www.asterverse.com.