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Sandra Lim and Katie Peterson

Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the most recent Barnard Women Poets Prize, and a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque(Kore Press, 2006). A 2015 Pushcart Prize winner, she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Research Institute. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Katie Peterson was Professor of the practice of poetry Tufts University for three years. She recently  moved to California to teach at a small college, Deep Springs. for the Spring. She will begin teaching at UC Davis in the winter.  In 2013 she published two books, Permission (New Issues) and The Accounts (University of Chicago Press). The Accounts was the winner of the 2014 Rilke Award from the University of North Texas. She is also the author of This One Tree (New Issues).  Her essays on poetry have appeared widely this year, and new poems appear in the Kenyon Review, APR, West Branch, and Zyzzyva.  Peterson earned a B.A. at Stanford University and a doctorate in English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, where her dissertation on Emily Dickinson won the Howard Mumford Jones Prize.