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Stacey D'Erasmo

Stacey D鈥橢rasmo is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, and Wonderland, and the nonfiction book The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between. She is a former Stegner Fellow, the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, and the winner of an Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Boston Review, Bookforum, The New England Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications. She is a Frederick Lewis Allen Room Fellow at the New York Public Library for 2016-17. She is an Associate Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University.

Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 in Neath, South Wales and studied at the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, then after working in an environmental field, co-founded Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and became the organization鈥檚 joint coordinator for some years.

As well as being an active environmental campaigner, he is an essayist and poet, having published聽two collections of essays:聽Watching the Fire Eater聽(1992), winner of the 1993 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; and聽Badlands聽(1996), essays about post-communist Albania, California and the state of Wales and England.听He has also edited聽Green Agenda: essays on the environment of Wales聽(1994). His book,聽To Babel and Back,聽was published in 2005 and won the 2006 Wales Book of the Year Award.

His poetry collections include聽A Thread in the Maze听(1978);听Native Ground听(1979);听Life Sentences听(1983);听The Dinosaur Park听(1985);听The Looters聽(1989); and聽Hey Fatman聽(1994). A聽Selected Poems聽was published by Carcanet聽in 1999, followed by聽After the Hurricane聽(2002) and聽King Driftwood聽(2008). In 2003, the same publisher issued his translations from the Welsh,聽The Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation.听

Robert Minhinnick lives in Porthcawl, South Wales. His debut novel,聽Sea Holly, was published in 2007, and shortlisted for the 2008 Ondaatje Prize.听 His latest books of poetry include聽The Keys of Babylon聽(2011), shortlisted for the 2012 Wales Book of the Year Award, his聽New Selected Poems聽(2012), and聽Diary of the Last Man聽(2017), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.