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Monica Ferrell is the author of The Answer is Always Yes, a novel, and Beasts for the Chase, a book of poems, which were published by The Dial Press and Sarabande Books in 2008.  A former “Discovery"/THE NATION winner and Wallace Stegner Fellow, her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Fence, and elsewhere.  She is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Purchase College and lives in Brooklyn.

Jean Valentine is the current state poet of New York (2008–2010). She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her tenth and most recent book of poetry is Little Boat (Wesleyan, 2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Lucy, her new chapbook, is just out from Sarabande Books. For more information, visit www.jeanvalentine.com.