Joyelle McSweeney is the author, most recently, of Percussion Grenade, poems and a play from Fence Books; the upcoming Salamandrine, 8 Gothics, prose and a play from Tarpaulin Sky; Flet, an eco-dystopic novel from Fence; Nylund, the Sarcographer, a baroque-noir novelette from Tarpaulin Sky Press; The Necropastoral, an artist’s book with essays and poems on ecology and mutation by McSweeney and collage by Andrew Shuta, from Spork Press; Deformation Zone, a double-essay chapbook with Johannes Göransson on translation and media; as well as The Commandrine and The Red Bird, two books of poetry from Fence. She edits Action Books, writes for the collective blog Montevidayo, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. For 2012–13, she is a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Read an excerpt by Joyelle McSweeney here.
Zachary Schomburg is the author of three books of poems: Fjords vol. 1 (2012), Scary, No Scary (2009), and The Man Suit (2007), all from Black Ocean. He is the editor of a poetry press, Octopus Books, and co-curates a poetry reading series, Bad Blood, in Portland, Oregon.
Read an excerpt by Zachary Schomburg here.