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Nathalie Anderson is a poet, librettist, and educator based in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Her books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume; and she has authored libretti for five operas.  She also manages the list-serv Lit-Philly.  A 1993 Pew Fellow, she has taught for 39 years at Swarthmore College, where she serves as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor in the Department of English Literature, and directs the Program in Creative Writing.

Thomas Devaney is a poet and educator based in Philadelphia. He wrote and co-director the film Bicentennial City with Green House Media (2020). Devaney is the author of Getting to Philadelphia, Hanging Loose Press (2019) and You Are the Battery, Black Square Editions (2019). His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019 and he is 2014 Pew Fellow. He is on the Advisory Board of Blue Stoop: A Home for Philly Writers and he teaches at Haverford College.

Mary Madec’s most recent book The Egret Lands with News From Other Parts has been described by Medbh McGuckian as, “extraordinary, celebrating the, “crazy mystery of good agony,” in a solemn mixture of the banal and the prophetic; these are poems about poems and poets, birds and the bible, war and married life, children and childhood, insects and parents. Deeply rooted in Irish myth they explore female territories explicitly, culminating in moving dirges for the mother figure. She has a PhD, in Linguistics, from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s in Old English Poetry from NUI, Galway) and two other collection from Salmon Poetry In Other Words, 2010, and Demeter Does Not Remember 2014, She won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry in 2008.

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