Sabrina Orah Mark was raised in Brooklyn, and received a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters and Commentary, American Poet, Black Clock, The Canary,...

Dave Madden, an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama, read from “The Authentic Animal,” his book on the history and culture of taxidermy, forthcoming in 2011 from St. Martin’s Press. Kellie Wells, also a UA assistant professor of English, read from her novel “Fat Girl,...