Vermont Studio Center

Marilyn Hacker is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including ESSAYS ON DEPARTURE (Carcanet, 2006), DESESPERANTO, (Norton, 2003) and WINTER NUMBERS which received the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. NAMES will be published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 2009. She has also published ten collections of translations from the French, including Marie Etienne's KING OF A HUNDRED HORSEMEN (Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2008) which received the Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008.

Jody Gladding's Rooms and Their Airs was published by Milkweed Editions (2009). Her collection Stone Crop appeared in the Yale Younger Poets Series, and recent poems have appeared in Poetry, ecopoetics, and Orion, among other journals. She also translates French and has produced some 20 translations for Archipelago Books, Columbia Univ. Press, Princeton Univ. Press, and other publishers. Gladding has taught at Cornell Univ., was Resident Poet at the Frost Place, has received a Whiting Writers Award, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.

Jane Hirshfield is the author six poetry collections, most recently After (HarperCollins), named a best book of 2006 by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's Financial Times. Other honors include major fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Her seventh poetry collection will be published by Knopf in August, 2011. Hirshfield is also the author of a now-classic collection of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and three equally classic books collecting the work of women poets of the past. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the TLS, The New Republic, Poetry, and five editions of The Best American Poems.

Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Speak Low (FSG, 2009) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named a Chancellor in 2006. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Carol Moldaw is the author of four books of poetry including Through the Window (La Almeda Press, 2001), Chalkmarks on Stone, and Taken From the River. Her work has appeared widely in such places as Paris Review, Conjunctions, Partisan Review, The Three Penny Review, Triquarterly, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. She has taught at New York University, Boston University and the Naropa Institute. She lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Antonya Nelson is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of four other short story collections, including Some Fun (Scribner's 2006), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell). She lives in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado.

Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia. His first college degree was in geology, and earth science continues to inform his writing. His book A Faithful Existence is a lyrical exploration of what it might mean to be faithful-in acts of translation, scientific and spiritual inquiry, friendship, and poetry. His new book Eye Against Eye takes place as five long poems. He has translated numerous books including, with Kent Johnson, The Night by Jaime Saenz. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Award for Writers, the Howard Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and two Gertrude Stein Awards, Gander teaches at Brown University.

Donald Revell is a Professor of English at the University of Utah. Twice the winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been granted fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, he now serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell lives in the desert south of Las Vegas with his wife, poet, Claudia Keelan.

Alan Cheuse is the author of the novels The Bohemians (1982), The Grandmother's Club (1986), The Light Possessed (1990), and To Catch the Lightning (2008) plus three collections of short fiction, Candace and Other Stories (1980), The Tennessee Waltz (1991), and Lost and Old Rivers (1998), and a pair of novellas The Fires (2007), as well as the nonfiction work Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey (1987). As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." A Trance After Breakfast, his collected travel essays, appeared last summer. His new novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, will come out in the spring of 2011.

Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945, a largely Polish city that became a part of the Soviet Ukraine shortly after his birth. A major figure of the Polish New Wave literary movement of the early 1970s and of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement of the 1980s, Zagajewski is today one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Polish poets in Europe and the United States. Zagajewski's most recent books in English are Eternal Enemies (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008) and Without End: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a book of essays and literary sketches, Two Cities: On Exile, History and the Imagination (1995), and Solidarity, Solitude: Essays. When, after September 11, The New Yorker published his poem, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World," on its back page—a rare departure from the cartoons and parodies that usually occupy that space—it resonated with many readers. He now spends part of the year in Krakow, the city he lived in during the 1960s and '70s; and he teaches in Chicago.