KGB Bar

Paul Legault was born in Ontario and raised in Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Southern California, where he obtained a BFA in screenwriting and the University of Virginia, where he earned an MFA in creative writing. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Awl, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Field, Pleiades, among other journals. He is the author of The Emily Dickinson Reader, Vol 1., an English-to-English translation of Dickinson forthcoming from McSweeney’s; The Madeleine Poems, which was selected as the winner of the 2009 Omnidawn Poetry Prize; and The Other Poems, from Fence Books. He is a co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works at The Academy of American Poets.

Christian Hawkey has written two full-length poetry collections, The Book of Funnels (Wave Books, 2005) and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007); four chapbooks; and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010).  In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. His own work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Brooklyn and Berlin.