Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and prose: ROME and Animal, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE. Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry and the co-author with Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac.
She is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and directs the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program.
Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poetry, Together and by Ourselves, Begging for It, and American Boys. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Slate, Tin House, and the New Yorker.
He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. He has taught creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Marymount Manhattan College, Bennington College, and lives in New York City.