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Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is the author of eight poetry books, two of which have received awards. Her seventh poetry book was honored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and her first book also won an award. Her poems have been widely published and anthologized. She is also the author of 12 nonfiction books, including “The Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home From Iraq and Afghanistan.” Currently, she is working on her ninth book of poetry and a non-fiction book on social justice. She’s a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.

Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, etc.  Her poetry collections include Furs Not Mine (Four Way Books 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry 2011), Long Division (Salmon Poetry 2009), and The Cartographer’s Vacation (Owl Creek Press 1999). She has received a PEN Discovery Award, Glimmer Train’s Short Fiction Award, and several fellowships at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Writers House at Merrimack College and the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge.

Scott Withiam has been a recipient of the Ploughshares Cohen Award and the Two Rivers Review Chapbook Contest and Drunken Boat Pan-Literary prizes. His first book, Arson & Prophets, came out with Ashland Poetry Press in fall 2003. Recent poems have been published by Agni, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Diagram, Ploughshares, Plume, and elsewhere. He formerly taught college writing and now works for a non-profit in the Boston area.

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