Alicia Ostriker is an esteemed and award winning poet and critic, author of 17 volumes of poetry, including her most recent collection Waiting for the Light (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). Ostriker is distinguished Professor Emerita of Rutgers University, teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program at Drew University, and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Kathy Engel currently serves as chair and associate arts professor in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Art and Public Policy and Masters Program in Arts Politics.