Heather Hartley, Poet & Essayist
Heather Hartley is Paris Editor for Tin House magazine and is the author of Adult Swim (2016) and Knock Knock (2010) both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Post Road and other venues and numerous anthologies, including Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast; and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She lives in Paris, where she curates Shakespeare & Company Bookshop’s weekly reading series, and has taught creative writing at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.
Jeffrey Greene, Poet, Memoirist, and Nature Writer
Jeffrey Greene is the author of four collections of poetry, a memoir, and three personalized nature books, the latest of which is In Pursuit of Wild Edibles: A Forager’s Tour (2016). He is also the author of Shades of the Other Shore, a book of mixed genre writing: sketches, prose pieces, and poetry written in collaboration with painter Ralph Petty. His writing has been supported through fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Rinehart Fund, and Humanities Texas, and he was a winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, the Randall Jarrell Award, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award. His poems, short stories, and essays have appeared numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, Agni, Southwest Review and the anthologies Strangers in Paris, Starry Island, Intimacy: Anthology, and Nothing to Declare: A Guide to Flash Sequence. He is professor at the American University of Paris and teaches for the Pan-European MFA Program.
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