Poet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein is the author of many books, including Near/Miss, Recalculating, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, and Attack of the Difficult Poems. He is the 2019 winner of Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American award for lifetime achievement.

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.