Jai Chakrabarti and Dana Levin

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Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, was a finalist for the Tagore Prize, and was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. His stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories.

Dana Levin is the author of five books of poetry, including Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon), a 2022 New York Times Notable Book. She co-edited Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Unsung Masters Series, 2023). A grateful recipient of honors from the NEA, PEN, the Library of Congress, as well as from the Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations, Levin serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University.