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Lisa GlattLisa Glatt earned her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the novels The Nakeds, A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, and the short story collection The Apple’s Bruise. Her poetry collections include Shelter and Monsters & Other Lovers. With her colleague and friend Suzanne Greenberg, Lisa has written two children’s novels (Abigail Iris: The One and Only and Abigail Iris: The Pet Project), both published by Bloomsbury/Walker. Lisa’s work has appeared in such magazines as Zoetrope, The Sun, Lit Hub, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. | Lisa.Glatt@csulb.edu

 

Suzanne GreenbergSuzanne Greenberg is the author of Shopping for Dad and Other Stories and the Drue Heinz winning collection Speed-Walk and Other Stories as well as the novel Lesson Plans, a Library Journal Editors’ Pick. She’s the co-author of Everyday Creative Writing: Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink. With Lisa Glatt, she co-authored two children’s novels, Abigail Iris: The One and Only and Abigail Iris: The Pet Project. Suzanne received her M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. Her creative work appears in numerous publications, including the Santa Monica Review, Mississippi Review, The Washington Post Magazine and The Sun. | Suzanne.Greenberg@csulb.edu

 

David HernandezDavid Hernandez’s most recent collection of poems, Hello I Must Be Going (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Dear, Sincerely (Pitt Poetry Series, 2016); Hoodwinked (Sarabande Books, 2011), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry; Always Danger (SIU Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series; and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). David has been awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in His poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Southern Review and The Best American Poetry. David is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. | David.Hernandez@csulb.edu

 

Bill MohrBill Mohr has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. His first poem was published by Fuse magazine in San Diego in 1972. Since then, in addition to a dozen anthologies (including one in Japanese), his poems have appeared in a multitude of magazines, among which are 5AM, Antioch Review, Blue Collar Review, Blue Mesa Review, Caliban (on-line), Invisible City, KYSO, Miramar, OR, Santa Monica Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Sonora Review, Upstreet, and ZYZZYVA. In 2015, Bonobes Editores in Mexico published an edition of his poems in English and Spanish, Pruebas Ocultas. His scholarly publications include a critically acclaimed literary history of Los Angeles, HOLDOUTS: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance 1948-1992 (University of Iowa, 2011). He also edited two major anthologies of Los Angeles poets, The Streets Inside: Ten Los Angeles Poets (1978) and Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets (1985). In 2015, he co-edited Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco with Neeli Cherkovski. From 1972 to 1988 he was the editor and publisher of Momentum Press, the archives of which are at UCSD. In 2014 he received the George Drury Smith Award from Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, and in the summer of 2015, he recorded over ten hours of biographical material for the Oral History Project at UCLA’s Special Collections. His current blog on poetry, culture, art, and politics (billmohrpoet.com) receives over 25,000 hits a month. A fully engaged academic, he frequently gives papers at conferences such as MLA, PAMLA, and the ALA. |  William.Mohr@csulb.edu

 

Patty SeyburnPatty Seyburn’s sixth book of poems, Jukebox, is forthcoming from What Books Press in 2025. She previously published five collections of poems: Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2014); Hilarity, (New Issues Press, 2009); Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is currently in Iasi, Romania, on a Fulbright Award. | Patty.Seyburn@csulb.edu