Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

St. John's most recent collection of poetry is "The Last Troubadour" (Ecco). He is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

Mead is the author of five collections of poetry and the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she has taught as a visiting writer at Colby College... Read More →

Parker is the author of "Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night" and "There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé.” Her work has been published in the The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment of... Read More →

Schiff is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent of which, "A Woman of Property" (Penguin, 2016), was named a best poetry book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, A Public Space, Poetry, and... Read More →

Youn is the author of "Blackacre,” which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the National Book Award, and named one of 2016's best poetry books by the New York Times, the Washington Post and BuzzFeed. Her previous book "Ignatz" (2010... Read More →