Poetry: Wayne Miller, Kevin Prufer, and Joy Katz

Wayne Miller is the author of Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), translator of I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007), by Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, and co-editor, with Kevin Prufer, of New European Poets (Graywolf,2008). He has received the Lucille Medwick Award, the George Bogin Award, aRuth Lilly Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize. He lives in Kansas City and
teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Kevin Prufer is the author, most recently, of National Anthem (Four Way, 2008), Fallen From a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005), and The Finger Bone (Carnegie Mellon, 2002). With Wayne Miller, he is Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and General Editor of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). With Joy Katz he has recently edited Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007). The recipient of three Pushcart prizes, he lives in rural Missouri.

Joy Katz is the author of two books of poems, Fabulae and The Garden Room, the latter out recently from Tupelo Press, and also is the co-author (with Kevin Prufer) of the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems and a senior editor at Pleiades. She was recently writer-in-residence at (see above). And she teaches poetry workshops at The New School.