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Priscilla Denise Levertov was a poet. From 1982 to 1993, She taught at Stanford University. During World War II, Levertov was a civilian nurse in London throughout the bombings. She wrote her first book, "The Double Image," while she was between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one. It was published in 1946 and brought her recognition as one of a group of poets dubbed the "New Romantics."After the war, Levertov moved to New York and continued to write poetry. Her first American book, "Here and Now," was published in 1956. She went on to publish more than twenty volumes of poetry, including "The Freeing of the Dust" (1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She also wrote four books of prose and translated of three volumes of poetry.Levertov spent the last decade of her life in Seattle. She died in 1997.

Barbara Rosenblat is an actor and narrator, best know for her work narrating audiobooks and for her role in the TV show "Orange Is the New Black." She has also performed voice acting for animated series and videogames.

Ishion Hutchinson is a poet and essayist. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell University and is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.Hutchinson's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, and New Letters. His first book, the poetry collection, "House of Lords and Commons," was published in 2016. His second collection, "Far District," was published in 2020.

Christian Wiman is a poet, translator and editor. He was the editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013.Wiman's first book, the poetry collection "The Long Home," was published in 1998. He has published six collections of poetry.Wiman has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, Lynchburg College, and Yale Divinity School.Wiman received his B.A. in English Literature from Washington and Lee University and an honorary doctorate from North Central College.

Aram Saroyan is a poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist, and playwright. He is known for his minimalist poetry, such as the one-word poem "lighght" and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".Saroyan's first book, the poetry collection "In," was published in 1965.

Edward M. Hirsch is a poet and critic, best known for his bestselling book about reading poetry.Hirsch's first collection, "For the Sleepwalkers," was published in 1081. In total, he has published nine books of poems and five books about poetry.Hirsch taught in the English Department at Wayne State University for six years and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Fanny Howe is a poet, novelist, and short story writer, known for her experimental poetry. Currently, she is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.Howe's writing career began in 1963 with the publication of her first novel, "West Coast Nurse," published under a pseudonym. Her first book of poetry, "Eggs: Poems," was published in 1970. She received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for her lifetime body of poetry.Howe has taught at Tufts University, Emerson College, Kenyon College, Columbia University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University.

Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for "Be With." He is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rae Armantrout is a poet. She was part of the Language poets movement. Up until her retirement, Armantrout was also a Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California San Diego for almost twenty years.Armantrout has published more than two dozen collections of poetry and prose.

Conor O'Callaghan is a novelist and poet.O'Callaghan's first novel, "Nothing on Earth," was published to acclaim in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. His second novel, "We Are Not in the World," was published in 2021. He has also published five collections of poetry.