Jesse Nathan and Lauren Haldeman

Lauren Haldeman is the author of Team Photograph, Instead of Dying (winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry) and Calenday. A graphic novelist and poet, she’s received an Iowa Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Find her online: http://laurenhaldeman.com

Jesse Nathan's first book, Eggtooth, won the New Writers Award in Poetry. It was published last September by Unbound Edition Press, with a foreword by Robert Hass. His poems appear in the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, BOMB, and elsewhere. Nathan teaches literature at UC Berkeley. He was raised in northern California and rural Kansas, and he lives now in Oakland.