Poet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein is the author of many books, including most recently Near/Miss, Recalculating, All the Whiskey in Heaven, Attack of the Difficult Poems, and Girly Man. Educated at Harvard College, he has been visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, the University at Buffalo, Brown University, and Princeton University.

Ted Greenwald authored more than 25 books of poetry, including Lapstrake; Blink; The Life; You Bet!; Common Sense; Word of Mouth; Looks Like I’m Walking; You Go Through; Something, She’s Dead; The Up and Up; and The Age of Reasons. Greenwald lived in New York City until his death in 2016.