Katie Peterson and Ewa Chrusciel

Katie Peterson Fog and Smoke, was published by FSG, 2024. Poems from the collection appeared in the Atlantic, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and the Yale Review, among other publications. Life in a Field (2021) is a collaboration with the photographer Young Suh. Other poetry books are: This One Tree (New Issues, 2006), Permission (New Issues, 2013), The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013), and A Piece of Good News (FSG, 2019), finalist for the Northern California Book Award, 2020. She’s editor of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell (FSG, 2017). Her work has been translated into French, Korean, and Portuguese.  Awards and fellowships include the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas for The Accounts, Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Katie is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California, where she is Professor of English and a Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Editor for the Phoenix Poets Series at the University of Chicago Press.

Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours, Purple Gallinule (Omnidawn 2022), Of Annunciations (Omnidawn 2017), Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn 2014), Strata (Emergency Press 2009, reprinted by Omnidawn, April 2018), as well as three books in Polish: Tobołek (2016) opiłki (2009), and Furkot (2003). Her book Contraband of Hoopoe was translated into Italian by Anna Aresi and came out in Italy with Edizioni Ensemble in May 2019. She’s translated Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and I.B. Singer as well as some contemporary American poets into Polish.  She is an associate professor of humanities at Colby-Sawyer College. Her website is http://www.echrusciel.net/.