Frannie Lindsay and Joanna Fuhrman

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of Poetry collections  Freud in Brooklyn (2000); Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003); Moraine (2006); Pageant (2009), winner of the Kinereth Gensler Prize from Alice James Books; the chapbook The Emotive Function (2011),  and The year of Yellow Butterflies, (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) Her poetry is humorous and surreal, mining references from pop and high culture. Fuhrman has taught writing at Rutgers University and in public schools for the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She has been poetry editor for Boog City and curator of the reading series for the Saint Mark’s Church Poetry Project in New York. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Frannie Lindsay’s fourth volume, Our Vanishing (Red Hen Press, 2014), won the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Award. Her previous titles are Mayweed (Washington Prize,The Word Works, 2010); Lamb (Perugia Prize, Perugia Press, 2006); and Where She Always Was (May Swenson Award, Utah State University Press, 2004.) Her work appears in the Best American Poetry of 2014 and The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, and many others, as well as on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, A Writer’s Almanac, and American Life in Poetry.  She is a previous winner of The Missouri Review Prize. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.