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Stephanie Brown is the author of two collections of poetry, Domestic Interior (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press, 1999). She has taught creative writing at University of California-Irvine and at the University of Redlands, but has primarily made her living as a librarian and library manager. Her poems have been selected for four editions of the annual Best American Poetry anthology (Scribner’s) and her poetry and essays have been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner’s, 2003), The Grand Permission: New Writing about Motherhood and Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) and others. Her work has also been published in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Slope, Pool, ZYZZYVA, LIT, and other journals. She was a curator for the Casa Romantica Reading Series for poets and fiction writers in San Clemente, California from 2004-2010.

David Lehman co-founded Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar with Star Black. The duo ran the series for its first seven years. Lehman, who has taught in the New School’s MFA program since its inception, is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, and the author of eight poetry books including The Daily Mirror (2000), When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), and Yeshiva Boys (2009). A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, the most recent of his six books of prose, won the 2010 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).