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Chase Twichell  has published six books of poems. Twichell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987, 1993), the Artists Foundation (Boston), the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990), and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994). In 1997 she won the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for The Snow Watcher. She was awarded a Smart Family Foundation Award in 2004 for poems published in the Yale Review.
Reginald Shepherd  is the editor of "The Iowa Anthology of New  American Poetries "(University of Iowa Press, 2004). He is the  author of five volumes of poetry, all published by the University  of Pittsburgh Press. Shepherd is the  recipient of the 1993 "Discovery"/The Nation Award and of grants  from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts  Council, and the Florida Arts Council, among other awards and  honors.
Mark Jarman is the author of a chapbook and nine books of poetry: Jarman’s awards for poetry include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, three grants from the NEA, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets’ Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine. 
Hilda Raz is editor of PRAIRIE SCHOONER and the PS Prize Book Series in Poetry and Short Fiction and is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska Hilda Raz has published many books, most recently TRANS and DIVINE HONORS (Wesleyan UP Poetry Series) and WHAT BECOMES YOU

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