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Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction and her poetry translations have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her novels include Jackpot; Retelling; and The Prophet of Tenth Street.  Keller has also translated several poetry collections, including Dan Pagis’s Last Poems and Irit Katzir’s And I Wrote Poems. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

David Lehman is the author of six books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). He recently edited The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Scribner, 2008). He teaches writing and literature in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York City and offers an undergraduate course eachfall on “Great Poems” at New York University. He initiated The Best American Poetry series in 1988 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship a year later. He lives in New York City and in Ithaca, New York.

Phillis Levin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently May Day (Penguin 2008), as well as the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, The New Criterion, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere.  Her honors include the Norma Farber First Book Award, Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and a 2007 NEA Fellowship. She lives in New York, is a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.