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JANICE ERLBAUM is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, 2006), and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir (Villard, 2008). She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007. Her poems have appeared in McSweeney’s and the Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.

KEVIN YOUNG is the author of five previous collections of poetry. His book Jelly Roll was a finalist or the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, For the Confederate Dead, won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.

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