Stephen Dunn's published works includes Everything Else in the World (W. W. Norton, 2006); Local Visitations (2003); Different Hours (2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984); Work & Love (1981); A Circus of Needs (1978); Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling (1974). He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry(BOA Editions, 2001), and Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1998).

Dunn is currently the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and lives in Frostburg, MD.

Dustin Beall Smith’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, BackStage, The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, The Louisville Review, The New York Times Magazine, Quarto, River Teeth, The Sun, Writing on the Edge, and elsewhere.

His honors include the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Nonfiction for his book, Key Grip: A Memoir of Endless Consequences; fellowships in 1995 and 1996 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and first-place Labor Press Council Awards for 1982, 1983, and 1984.

He currently teaches writing at Gettysburg College, where he is also coordinator of the Peer Learning Center.