Sandra Lim’s latest book of poetry is THE CURIOUS THING (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her previous collections include THE WILDERNESS (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück, and LOVELIEST GROTESQUE (Kore Press, 2006). She has received the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the Levis Reading Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Baffler, Gulf Coast, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Born in Seoul, Korea, she lives in Cambridge, MA.
Born in New Delhi, India, Vandana Khanna is a writer, educator, and editor. Her third collection of poetry, Burning Like Her Own Planet, was recently published by Alice James Books. Her previous books have won the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize, The Miller Williams Poetry Prize, the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition, and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in publications such as Poem-a-Day, The New Republic, Guernica, New England Review, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry.