Ann Lauterbach‘s most recent book is Under the Sign (Penguin 2013). Her essays were collected in The Night Sky (2005) and The Given & The Chosen (2011); a new collection of writings on poetics and art will be published by Omnidawn in 2016. She has been, since 1992, co-chair (with Anselm Berrigan) of writing in Bard’s MFA program. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. Her work was the focus of a symposium at the University of Paris in December of last year.
Anna Moschovakis is a writer, translator, and editor. Her most recent books are You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (poems), and Commentary, a co-translation with Christine Schwartz Hartley of Marcelle Sauvageot’s 1930 feminist novella/memoir. She is also the author of a previous book of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone and the translator of novels by Annie Ernaux, Didier Daeninckx, and others. She is part of the collaborative yearlong project The January February March (with Kate Newby, Jennifer Kabat and Tim Saltarelli), for which she is completing an audio walk touring the disparate economies of a town in recession and its resident $1 billion pharmaceutical giant. She teaches at Pratt Institute and in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Moschovakis is also a longtime member of Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse. She lives in South Kortright, New York.