Marcella Durand’s latest book, A Winter Triangle, was selected by Srikanth Reddy for the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize and published by Fordham University Press, 2025. A collaboration with her mother, painter Suzan Frecon, The Light Factory, was published this fall by Insurance Editions. She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry (MIT Press, 2024) and the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art.

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.