Zane Koss is a poet, scholar, translator, and resident alien currently living in Brooklyn, NY, born and raised in the East Kootenays, Canada. This event will celebrate the launch of his first full-length book of poetry, Harbour Grids (Invisible Publishing, 2022). He is also co-translator, with Whitney DeVos and Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, of Hugo García Manríquez’s The Commonplace (Cardboard House, 2022). He is the author of several other chapbooks, including The Odes (incomplete)(above/ground, 2020), recently shortlisted for the Nelson Ball Prize. His poetry, translations, and essays can be found in the /temz/ Review, Jacket 2, tripwire, Asymptote, Chicago Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Zane has recently completed a doctoral dissertation in the English Department at New York University, where he is a co-organizer of the Organism for Poetic Research.

Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Transversal (University of Arizona Press), which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and named a Best Book of 2021 by the New York Public Library. He has also published the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press), winner of the 2015 LASA Latino Studies Section Book Prize and an MLA Honorable Mention. As a translator of Latin American poetry, Noel has been a finalist for the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award. His international performances include Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at New York University as well as at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas.

MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. She is the author of two full-length books of poems: THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010); and over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books. Holding MFAs in Creative Writing and Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English Literature from NYU, MC teaches undergraduate creative writing, literature, and artist book classes at NYU as a contingent faculty member. She was a staff member at Minnesota Center for Book Arts from 2009-2012, where she designed MCBA’s certificate programs for adult learners, and she now directs the online Creative Publishing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts (NYC).

Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. They earned their MFA from Brown University in May of 2018, and received the Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Prize for Innovative Writing in 2017 and the Confrontation Poetry Prize in 2019. Their chapbook, Alien year, was selected by Brandon Shimoda for the Oversound Chapbook Prize in 2020. Akers’s work can be found or will be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, The Quarterless Review, bæst journal, and elsewhere.Their first full length book, Elizabeth/The Story of Drone (Propeller Books), is forthcoming in 2022.

We hope to see you there!