MEGAN LEVAD: Selected as Tavern Books’ 2014 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series poet, Megan Levad is the author of Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015) and What Have I to Say to You (Tavern Books, 2017). A summer 2017 MacDowell Fellow, her poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, Tin House, Granta, Fence, and the Everyman’s Library anthology Killer Verse, among other publications. Megan also writes song lyrics; her first opera, Kept, with Kristin Kuster, premiered in May 2017.
CARL ADAMSHICK: Carl Adamshick is the author of four books of poetry: Curses and Wishes, Saint Friend, Receipt, and Birches. He has taught at Catlin Gabel and the American International School in Vienna, as well as being a writer in-residence at the William Stafford Archive at Lewis and Clark College. He is an editor at Tavern Books, a non profit press dedicated to poetry and the preservation of books.
CLAIRE SKINNER: Tucson poet Claire Skinner’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Muzzle, and The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016), among other places. She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, where she was a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in poetry from 2013 to 2014.
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