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Pattie McCarthy is the author of seven books of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, most recently extraordinary tides (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023), and Wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021). A 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she is a non-tenure track professor at Temple University where she teaches literature and creative writing.
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).
Elaine Equi is the author of numerous poetry books including, Click and Clone (Coffee House Press, 2011).
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden, in
Chris Abani was born on December 27, 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and an English mother.