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Martha Rhodes is the author of four poetry collections: At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance (winner of the Green Rose Prize), Mother Quiet, and most recently The Beds, just published in January 2012. She is the director of the Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry and is on the faculties of Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books in New York City.

Lynn Emanuel holds a BA from Bennington College, an MA from the City College of New York, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the author of four books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly--, which was awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, and Noose and Hook.  Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry anthologies numerous times and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry.  She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Bennington College Low Residency MFA program.