Jennifer Chang and Stuart Nadler

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VIRTUALLY | Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2012 and 2022, The Ecopoetry Anthology, The New Republic, The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Yale Review, and her essays on poetics have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, New Literary History, Resilience: A Journal on Environmental Humanities, Poetry Northwest, and anthologies on the Harlem Renaissance and Asian American Literature and Culture. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman and serves as poetry editor of New England Review. After several years in Washington, D.C., she now lives in Austin and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin.

Stuart Nadler is the author of two novels and a short story collection. His first novel, Wise Men (Little, Brown), was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, and has been translated across Europe. His story collection, The Book of Life (Little, Brown), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize. His most recent novel, The Inseparables (Little, Brown), was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, and a finalist for a Mark Twain Prize for the American Voice. In 2012 he was a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. He has taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin, Connecticut College, and Boston College.