Avia Tadmor is the author of “Song in Tammuz” (Tupelo Press, 2026), winner of the International Berkshire Prize. Her poetry appears in The New Republic, Best New Poets, and New England Review, among other publications. Tadmor received fellowships and awards from Yaddo, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Poets & Writers, and was named a Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal. Previously, she taught writing at Columbia University, where she codirected the Medical Humanities First-Year Writing Courses as well as the Columbia Artist/Teachers Program, promoting no-cost arts education in schools and community organizations in NYC. Tadmor is a clinical associate professor at New York University. Born in Jerusalem, she lives in New York.
Jill Bialosky’s most recent book of poetry is “Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026). She was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and four other acclaimed collections of poetry, four critically acclaimed novels, most recently, “The Deceptions” (Counterpoint, 2022), a finalist for the Gotham Book Award, and a three memoirs, including “The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother” (Washington Square Press, 2026). She coedited, with Helen Schulman, the anthology, “Wanting a Child” (Farrar, Straus and GIroux, 1998). Bialosky is an executive editor and vice president at W. W. Norton & Company. She was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.
Irena Klepfisz is a lesbian activist and poet. She was a cofounder of the ground breaking Conditions magazine and a cofounder of the Jewish Women’s Committee to End the Occupation (JWCEO). She coedited, with Melanie Kay e Kantrowitz, “The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology” (Beacon Press, 1989) and served as the Yiddish editor for the Jewish feminist magazine Bridges. For her poetry, she has received a NYS CAPS grant and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her most recent collection, “Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971–2021” (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry and the winner of the 2023 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.