Houston Poet Laureate (2015–2017), Robin Davidson is author of the poetry collections Luminous Other, recipient of Ashland Poetry Press’s 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, Kneeling in the Dojo, City that Ripens on the Tree of the World, and most recently, Mrs. Schmetterling (Arrowsmith Press, 2021), and editor of Houston’s Favorite Poems, a citywide anthology modeled on Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project. A Fulbright scholar at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland and recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation, she is co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of two volumes of Ewa Lipska’s poems from the Polish, The New Century and Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021). She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, she teaches literature and creative writing as professor emerita of English for the University of Houston Downtown, and she serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action. 
Website: https://www.robindavidsonpoetry.com/

Michał Choiński teaches literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He has written two books on the history of American literature: Rhetoric of the Revival (V&R, 2016) and Southern Hyperboles (Louisiana State University Press, 2020). His pamphlet, Gifts Without Wrapping came out with the Hedgehog Press in 2019, as a winter of a poetry competition. Choiński’s poems have been published in the US, UK and in Canada. In 2022, he’ll be a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University, writing his next book.
Website: https://michalchoinski.com/

Oksana’s Lutsyshyna is a Lecturer in Ukrainian in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and her research interests address the issue of metropolitan modernity and Central and Eastern European identity in literature. Her doctoral dissertation is a study of the prose of Polish writer Bruno Schulz in light of Walter Benjamin’s modernity theories, and she is currently at work on a book on the discourse of film in the prose of Bruno Schulz and Ukrainian writer Valerian Pidmohylny. Her second academic book-length project focuses on gendered colonialism and decolonization in the works of contemporary Ukrainian writers. Author of four novels and four volumes of poetry, Lutsyshyna’s most recent novel Ivan and Phoebe (2019) won two of the most prestigious literary awards in Ukraine, in 2020 and 2021, respectively: the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in fiction. Her novel is forthcoming in Nina Murray’s English translation from Deep Vellum Publishing in 2022. Her poetry collection, Persephone Blues, in English translation, was released in 2019 by Arrowsmith Press. She also translates Ukrainian authors into English in collaboration with Olena Jennings. 

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