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Brett Fletcher Lauer received an MFA from Saint Mary’s College in 2007. He is the author of the memoir Fake Missed Connections: Divorce, Online Dating, and Other Failures (Soft Skull, 2016) and A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, 2014). Lauer is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor of A Public Space. He lives in New York City.
Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest.
Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Tony Hoagland