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Lisa Olstein is the author of Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award (Copper Canyon Press, 2006).  Cold Satellite, an album of songs based on her writing, was released by singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in 2009. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum. A contributing editor of jubilat, with Dara Wier and Noy Holland she co-founded the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is associate director of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

In addition to his many books, David Shapiro has published art criticism and poetry in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Artforum.  He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zabel Prize for Experimental Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a nomination for a National Book Award in 1971. He has edited volumes on aesthetics, translated Alberti’s poems about Picasso, collaborated with Rudy Burckhardt on three films and had a play produced at the Kitchen called “Two Boys on the Bus.” A professional violinist in his youth, he now writes in Riverdale, New York, where he lives with his wife Lindsay.