The Paris Review Creators & Guests

Helena de Groot is an audio producer and editor. Currently, she is the editor of "Aria Code," the host and producer of the Poetry Foundation podcast "Poetry Off the Shelf," and the producer and sound designer of the "Paris Review Podcast." She has also contributed to "This American Life."

Yohanca Delgado is a writer and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Mary Terrier is a fictional writer.

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.

James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an author of novels and short stories.Salter was a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force until 1957 when his first novel, "The Hunters," was published and he became a full-time author.Salter went on to publish eight novels. He also wrote screenplays, short stories, and essays. He received numerous literary awards for his works.