What Makes a Critic?
2023-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Residence Inn Berkeley – Ballroom 2, 2121 Center St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Much has changed in the world of letters since 1890, when Oscar Wilde famously wrote that “the critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” These days, when Goodreads reviews and social media takedowns outnumber dwindling book review publications and shrinking newspaper book pages, what role does professional criticism still play, and how can aspiring critics best prepare to engage in the literary discourse? The National Book Critics Circle’s Emerging Critics Fellowship seeks to identify, nurture, and support the development of the next generation of book critics. In this session, recent Emerging Critics—Yohanca Delgado, Ricardo Jaramillo, Jonathan Leal, Antonio López, and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon—will reflect on their own development as critics and discuss what the next generation of book critics will bring to the table, in a conversation moderated by NBCC President Heather Partington.
Find the event on the Bay Area Book Festival website here.
Yohanca Delgado is a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts recipient. Her recent fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2022, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021, The Paris Review, One Story, A Public Space, Story, and elsewhere. Her recent essays appear in TIME, The Believer, and New York Times Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University and is a graduate of the 2019 Clarion workshop.
Ricardo Jaramillo is a poet and writer from Philadelphia. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Believer, and The Rumpus, among other places. He was an inaugural 2021 PERIPLUS fellow, and a 2019-2020 Fulbright teaching fellow at La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Currently, he works as a case manager at a school for immigrant youth in the Oakland Unified School District.
Jonathan Leal is an author, composer, and researcher based in Los Angeles. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley, a South Texas region located at the border of the United States and Mexico, Jonathan works as an artist-scholar to create writing and collaborative arts projects that grapple with issues of borders and memory, place and belonging, technology and aesthetics, and creative and political practices. His musical projects have been featured in Pitchfork, Democracy Now!, Texas Monthly, Remezcla, Latino USA, and elsewhere, and his writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, San Francisco Classical Voice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Dreams in Double Time (forthcoming August 2023 from Duke University Press) and co-editor of Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (Bloomsbury 2021). A former Emerging Critic with the National Book Critics Circle (2018–2019), Jonathan holds a PhD in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern California.
Antonio López is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and a CantoMundo Fellow. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford. He is pursuing a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Antonio is currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest council member for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com.
Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, an interdisciplinary humanities department. Her dissertation asks how a novel’s formal choices are also ethical ones: how texts (especially modernist novels) express an ethical position, and position us ethically. Before Berkeley, she wrote middle school math curricula and then worked in strategy consulting.
Moderator Heather Scott Partington is a writer, teacher, and book critic. She is president of the National Book Critics Circle, also served as the Vice President in charge of the Emerging Critics program and was one of the NBCC’s first cohort of Emerging Critics. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Alta Journal, among other publications. She lives in Elk Grove, California.

Labor and Literary Criticism: A Panel Discussion
2023-08-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Please join critics E. Tammy Kim (The New Yorker), Nora Caplan-Bricker (Jewish Currents), Zoe Hu (Bookforum, Dissent) and Jennifer Wilson (The New York Times) for a conversation about labor, class, and how they impact the work of book reviewing. NBCC board member Adam Dalva will lead the discussion, asking these critics about some of their recent reviews that engage these themes. This event is co-sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle, the Freelance Solidarity Project/National Writers Union, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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Nora Caplan-Bricker is a writer and editor who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the executive editor of Jewish Currents. Her work also appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. A member of the 2021-22 organizing committee of the Freelance Solidarity Project/National Writers Union, she currently organizes with ReclaimRI.

Zoe Hu has written cultural criticism, reportage and essays for publications like Dissent, The Baffler, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. She is a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also active in the PSC, CUNY’s faculty and staff union.

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye.

Jennifer Wilson is a contributing essayist at The New York Times Book Review and a member of the Freelance Solidarity Project/National Writers Union. She teaches arts reporting and cultural criticism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. In 2022, she was awarded the NBCC’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books. He is the Senior Fiction Editor of Guernica Magazine. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

Barrios Book in Translation Roundtable
2023-11-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
The NBCC is honored to bring together the translators of 5 of the 6 finalists for the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize in a panel discussion about the art and craft of translation. Our panelists include Jennifer Croft, Boris Dralyuk, Mara Faye Lethem, Christina MacSweeney, and Mark Polizzotti. The discussion will be moderated by Mandana Chaffa, NBCC board member and vice president of the Barrios Prize committee.
Register for this panel here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NLhDZdqAT0C7wlcIr1kwDA
The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize was inaugurated in the 2022 publishing year to highlight the artistic merit of literature in translation across genres and to recognize translators’ valuable work, which expands and enriches American literary culture by bringing world literature to English-language readers. The first prize was presented in March 2023 to the novel Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk and published by Deep Vellum.
The finalists were Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti from French (Archipelago), Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press), The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft from Polish (Riverhead), When I Sing Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem from Catalan (Graywolf), and You Can Be the Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah from Arabic (Milkweed Editions).

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024), the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights.
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and the translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and other authors. His poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, and he is the recipient, most recently, of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.
Mara Faye Lethem is a writer, researcher, and literary translator. Winner of the inaugural Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí, she was also recently awarded the Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literature. Her translation of Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the Warwick Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and winner of the Nota Bene Prize. Her forthcoming translations include Pol Guasch’s Napalm in the Heart, Alana S. Portero’s Bad Habit, Max Besora’s The Fake Muse, and Irene Solà’s I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness.
Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning literary translator, working mainly in the areas of Latin American fiction, essays, poetry, and hybrid texts. She has translated works by such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Julián Herbert, Jazmina Barrera, Karla Suárez, and Elvira Navarro. She has also contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published shorter translations, articles, interviews, and collaborations on a wide variety of platforms. Her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s Cross-Stitch is forthcoming in fall 2023 and Clyo Mendoza’s Fury in 2024.
Mark Polizzotti has translated more than sixty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Scholastique Mukasonga, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, and André Breton. His translations have won the English PEN Award and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. Polizzotti is the author of twelve books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, The Nation, Parnassus, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He lives in New York, where he directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

NBCC Panel: Authors on Climate Change
2023-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
On November 8, 2023, the NBCC hosted a Zoom panel discussion featuring authors of several newly released books about climate change, arguably the preeminent issue of our time. Our panelists—David Gessner, Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, Premee Mohamed, Christopher Preston, and Elizabeth Rush—covered topics from the authors’ own intersections with climate change to the literary market’s appetite for an often-somber topic.

Panelists:
The New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books on nature and the environment, David Gessner’s latest book, A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World, explores what the world will look like for his college-age daughter when she turns sixty, the age he was at the start of the book.
Kyle Meyaard-Schaap comes to climate change from a perspective that is rarely discussed in mainstream media – that of an evangelical Christian. His call to Christians to take up the cause of climate change, Following Jesus In A Warming World, has the potential to move the needle of public opinion perhaps more than any current book on shelves now: There are millions of Evangelicals currently sitting on the wrong side of history.
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. In The Annual Migration of Clouds, Mohamed depicts human struggles on Earth after the climate change apocalypse has struck – and what our obligations are to each other in such a time and place.
Christopher Preston tackles climate change from two fascinating perspectives: as an environmental philosopher and as the author of Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals, a new book that shows how wildlife can serve as partners with humans in efforts to combat climate change.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Elizabeth Rush is releasing a new book that examines climate change from the perspective of motherhood – and an expedition to Antarctica. In The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth, she documents the lives and work of fifty-seven scientists to a continent often at the heart of climate change narratives.
Moderator:
A former journalist, Christopher Lancette is a reemerging freelance writer focusing heavily on nature and the environment, and an NBCC member. He has written for more than 50 national and local publications and currently reviews for the Washington Independent Review of Books and EcoLit Books. Follow him on Twitter @chrislancette.

AWP 2024: How Book Reviewing is Changing and Why it Matters
2024-02-09 13:45 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Room 3501 EF, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Like everything in publishing, book reviews are in flux, with mainstream venues reducing reviews in exchange for fawning interviews and book roundups that feel like marketing fluff pieces. This panel of book critics will discuss why they write book reviews, the state of book reviewing today, the need for diversity in book reviewers and in books reviewed, and how criticism can help reshape an often myopic and inequitable industry.

Moderator: Alice Stephens is the author of the novel Famous Adopted People; a book reviewer, essayist, and short story writer; cofounder of the Adoptee Literary Festival; facilitator at the Adoptee Voices Writing Group; an editor at Bloom; and a member of the Starlings Collective.

Martha Anne Toll‘s debut novel, Three Muses, won the Petrichor Prize and was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize. Her second novel, Duet For One is due out spring 2025. She is a frequent book reviewer for NPR Books, the Washington Post, and others. She is on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Ericka Taylor lives in Washington, DC, where she writes fiction, book reviews, and opinion pieces. She is a regular contributor to NPR Books, and her writing has appeared in YES! Media, Willow Springs Magazine, Bloom, and The Millions. She serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He serves as the Lannan visiting lecturer in creative writing at Georgetown University and has garnered many awards for his writing, including the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Whiting Award for Fiction.

AWP 2024: Where Is Literary Criticism Headed?
2024-02-09 15:20 - 16:35 (America/Chicago) | Ballroom B, Level 2, Kansas City Convention Center
In its fiftieth anniversary year, the National Book Critics Circle gathers literary critics who have been defining the future of contemporary cultural criticism. Three NBCC criticism award chairs, who have had their fingers on the pulse of critical engagement for the past decade, are joined by three NBCC-honored critics in a reading and wide-ranging conversation about the future of the form.

Camille T. Dungy is the author of Soil, four collections of poetry, including Trophic Cascade and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers, a finalist for the NBCC Criticism award. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, Dungy’s honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA in prose and poetry.
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.
Walton Muyumba has published literary essays and reviews in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other outlets. He co-edited and wrote the introduction to John Edgar Wideman’s collection, You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981–2018 (Scribner, 2021). Muyumba is at work on various creative and critical book projects. He is Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University.
Moderator: J. Howard Rosier is the National Book Critics Circle’s criticism chair. His writing has appeared in The New York TImes, the Atlantic, The Nation, Bookforum, Poetry, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

AWP 2024: The Criticism of Translated Books: A Words Without Borders Conversation
2024-02-10 09:00 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Room 2208, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Three leading critics and translators—Sarah Chihaya (book critic and author of The Ferrante Letters), Laura Marris (translator of The Plague), and Justin Rosier (chair, National Book Critics Circle Criticism Committee)—will discuss the challenges and benefits of reviewing translated literature with Words Without Borders Books Editor Adam Dalva. The conversation will focus on both the ethics of reviewing books in translation and practical tips on how to best write compelling contemporary criticism.

Moderator:Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and New York Review of Books. He is the senior fiction editor of Guernica magazine, serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and is the books editor of Words Without Borders.

Sarah Chihaya is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University and a senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is one of four authors of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism.

Laura Marris’s criticism appears in the New York Times, the TLS, and The Point. Her translations include Camus’s The Plague and To Live is to Resist, a biography of Gramsci. She has received support from MacDowell and the Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book is forthcoming from Graywolf.

J. Howard Rosier’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry, the Nation, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He is is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2023 NBCC Awards Finalists Reading
2024-03-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, Starr Foundation Hall, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Register for our finalists reading at this link: https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2024. Doors open at 6 p.m.

2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Register for our awards ceremony and reception at this link: https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2024. Doors open at 6 p.m.

NBCC John Leonard Prize Panel: A conversation with Zain Khalid and Tess Gunty, moderated by Lauren LeBlanc
2024-09-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States

A Conversation about Translation with Maureen Freely and Mandana Chaffa
2024-10-09 18:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Join Maureen Freely, translator of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, winner of the 2023 Barrios Book in Translation Prize, in conversation with Mandana Chaffa, Vice President of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, on October 9, 2024, 6:30 pm ET
Attendance free; registration required:
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Where Is Literary Criticism Headed? An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
2024-10-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Page Street SF, 297 Page Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
In its fiftieth anniversary year, the National Book Critics Circle gathers literary critics who have been defining the future of contemporary cultural criticism in recent years in a wide-ranging interactive roundtable conversation about the future of the form. With Jane Ciabattari, Anita Felicelli, Jonathan Leal, and Oscar Villalon. Moderated by NBCC President Heather Scott Partington. Free reception to follow, 8:30PM on. Registration opens September 10. Link on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1004791778257?aff=oddtdtcreator

Boston Book Festival Panel: Celebrating The National Book Critics Circle 1974-2024: NBCC Past, Present, and Future
2024-10-26 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Downtown / BackBay Boston
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, brings together vital voices in cultural criticism and practitioners of literary arts in its annual prizes and other programming throughout the year. As the NBCC celebrates its 50th anniversary, we propose a dynamic conversation for the Boston Book Festival, gathering Boston-area critics and writers who have served on the NBCC, been recognized for its prizes, or both. Our discussion will offer insight about becoming a book critic, how decisions are made about what books get reviewed, the critic’s relationship to writing criticism and making art, and whatever topics are raised in the Q&A period. The panel will be moderated by Kate Tuttle, a past NBCC president and current editor of the books coverage of the Boston Globe. She will lead a discussion with literary critic and poet Stephanie Burt, memorist and literary critic Nina MacLaughlin, and essayist and cultural critic Jesse McCarthy.

NBCC at 50 & Brooklyn’s Indelible Influence
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11238
The National Book Critics Circle was conceived and founded in April 1974. What began with founding members John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof over drinks at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan became a national conversation between critics. 50 years later, the National Book Critics Circle remains a force in American literary society through its awards, but also its community.
Now in its 50th anniversary year, this panel conversation considers the influence that Brooklyn along with its critics and writers have brought to American literary culture. Today, even after the move to remote work in 2020, Brooklyn stands out as home to much of the publishing industry. In both formal and casual channels, the borough has been a crucible for collaboration, networking, leverage, and celebration of writers. National Book Critics Circle board members past and present, including Michele Filgate, Maris Kreizman, David Varno, Jo Livingstone, Tobias Carroll, and others will discuss the borough’s impact on books and criticism over the decades.

How to Survive in the Book Criticism Landscape
2025-02-06 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Please join freelance book critics Tope Folarin, Zoe Hu, and Hillary Kelly, as well as The Nation’s associate literary editor Kevin Lozano, for a panel discussion about why the book criticism landscape has shrunk—and how to navigate it.. Moderated by NBCC board member Adam Dalva, the panel will discuss the ongoing shift from substantive criticism to listicles and previews; why opportunities for freelance critics to get published and paid appropriately are diminishing, and how we might reassert the importance of book criticism and help it flourish in the future. This event is co-sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle and the Freelance Solidarity Project, a division of the National Writers Union.

2024 NBCC Awards Finalists Reading
2025-03-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Registration is now available. Register here.

2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony
2025-03-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Register for the ceremony here. Ticketed reception to follow.

2025 AWP Conference | NBCC Fiftieth Anniversary: All-Stars Breaking New Ground in Fiction
2025-03-28 15:20 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
A special fiftieth-anniversary literary partner National Book Critics Circle featured reading at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles, with all-star fiction writers Jonathan Escoffery, Jonathan Lethem, and Justin Torres, three authors honored as NBCC finalists or award winners, whose work is breaking new ground. Readings and conversation, moderated by NBCC President Heather Scott Partington, will cover inspiration, research, influences on their work, writing in these times, and evolving forms.

A Conversation on Poetry Criticism
2025-06-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Three of the most accomplished poetry critics today, Stephanie Burt, Anahid Nersessian, and David Orr, discuss being a poetry critic, the state of poetry criticism, and the pleasures and practicalities of becoming such a critic now. NBCC President Adam Dalva introduces the panel, and NBCC board members Rebecca Morgan Frank and David Woo serve as moderaters.
Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Super Gay Poems and Don’t Read Poetry. A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she served as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Raritan, and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.

Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of three books—Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (Verso, 2022; U of Chicago P, 2021), The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life (Chicago, 2020), and Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment (Harvard UP, 2015)—and is currently writing a book called How to Have Sex in a Poem, under contract with FSG. The former poetry editor of Granta magazine, she is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, New Left Review, n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Bidoun, Poetry Magazine, Mousse and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor in the Department of English at UCLA.
David Orr is Professor of Poetry and the Practice of Criticism at Rutgers University and a longtime poetry critic for the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. His first book, Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, was named one of the twenty best books of 2011 by the Chicago Tribune; his subsequent books have been covered in outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal to NPR to PBS NewsHour. He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editor’s Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine. A native South Carolinian, David lives Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter.
