Saeed Jones and Shawna Kay Rodenberg

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Saeed Jones is the award winning-author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise. His most recent book, Alive at the End of the World won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Poetry.

Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of Kin, a debut memoir deemed “essential reading” by the Washington Post and “gorgeously gritty” by Oprah Daily. She graduated from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2012 and was invited back as an Alumni Fellow in 2022. She has been the recipient of a Jean Ritchie Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and her essays have appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, and Elle.