Tonya M. Foster's latest collection Thingifications: A Mathematics of Chaos is overdue to her publisher Ugly Duckling Presse. Her first book A Swarm of Bees in High Court was published by Belladonna*. She is an editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art; and of the forthcoming Umbra Galaxy (Wesleyan University Press). She is a recipient of support from Creative Capital Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and received the 2023 C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Tonya is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University where she serves as the George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry, and is a co-director of the 70+ year old Poetry Center.  

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.