Phillis Levin
Levin is the author of five poetry collections, most recently "Mr. Memory & Other Poems," which is a finalist for the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry. Her honors include the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA program at Hofstra University and lives in New York City.