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Michael Wiegers, Writer
A veteran of nonprofit literary publishing for two decades, Michael Wiegers is the Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press. Among the collections he has edited are award winning books by poets such as C.D. Wright, W.S. Merwin, Ruth Stone, Ted Kooser, Arthur Sze, and Alberto Ríos as well as major works in translation by Pablo Neruda, Taha Muhammad Ali, and Ho Xuan Huong, and books by emerging authors Michael Dickman, Matthew Zapruder, Valzhyna Mort and Brenda Shaughnessy, among many others. He additionally serves as Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine, is the editor of two anthologies, This Art and The Poet’s Child, and is co-editor, with Mónica de la Torre, of Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. His translations have been published in Connecting Lines: New Mexican Poetry, Five Points, The Great River Review, Los Angeles Times, and the
Washington Post. He has published work in The American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Publishers Weekly, and Rain Taxi, among others. He lives in Port Townsend, WA.
Michael Wiegers Bio and Cross Links
C. E. Morgan, Writer
C. E. Morgan is the author of All the Living. She lives in Kentucky. She is currently at work on her second novel.
C. E. Morgan Bio and Cross Links
Ben Marcus, Writer
Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including Grand Street, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, and Story Quarterly, and he reviews literature for The Village Voice.
Ben Marcus Bio and Cross Links
Andrew J. Bacevich, Writer
Andrew Bacevich’s books include The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism and The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War which received the inaugural Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book in 2005. He is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Bacevich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Andrew Bacevich Bio and Cross Links
Matthew Dickman, Poet
Matthew Dickman’s debut collection of poetry, All American Poem, won the 2008 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Tony Hoagland, and the 2009 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry (Oregon Book Awards). His work has been published in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, Poet Lore, www.fishousepoems.org, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and/or residencies from Oregon Literary Arts, the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center and the Fine Arts Work Center. He lives in Portland, OR.
Matthew Dickman Bio and Cross Links
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