Julie Carr is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, most recently Real Life: An Installation (Omindawn 2018), OBJECTS FROMA BORROWED CONFESSION (Ahsahta, 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press, 2018). She is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press, 2015) and co-translator of Leslie Kaplan's Excess-The Factory (Commune Editions, 2018). Recipient of an NEA fellowship, Carr is a Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in English and Creative Writing. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver.
Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and a book- length lyric essay, Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020). Dream Apartment, her fifth book of poems, is forthcoming in 2023. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Residency, Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Pushcart Prize, and Hayden Carruth Award, she is a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center for Writers MFA programs.