“In flashes of recollection, in flares of supposition and speculation, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma,  with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse, taut, gnomic, wrenching, and subtly evocative, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and irrevocable.” — Nathalie Anderson, Professor Emerita, Swarthmore College, author of Stain

Ditta Baron Hoeber’s first book, Without You is just out, her poems have been published in magazines including Gargoyle, Burningword Literary Review, Noon, Pank, the American Poetry Review and the American Journal of Poetry. Her photographs, drawings and book works have been exhibited nationally and have been acquired by several collections in the US and in the UK.

Lisa Isaacson has published poems in antiphony, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Fence and Denver Quarterly among others. She has recently returned to the United States after 22 years teaching World Humanities and World Poetry in Abu Dhabi, UAE and now lives in Milwaukee.