Erica Funkhouser’s most recent book of poetry
is Post & Rail, winner of the 2017 Idaho Prize for Poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2018). Five previous books of poetry were published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Alice James Books. She has written short fiction, essays and plays. Funkhouser teaches writing at MIT and lives in Essex, MA.

J.D. Debris is the author of The Scorpion’s Question Mark (Autumn House Press, 2023), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. He holds an MFA from New York University, where he was
a Goldwater Fellow. His work has received further fellowships and awards from DISQUIET, Narrative, Ploughshares, and Mass Poetry. He is currently
a visiting lecturer at Salem State University.