Dana Delibovi is a poet, essayist, and translator. She began translating the poetry of St. Teresa of Ávila in 2019, after retiring from a hybrid career as an advertising copywriter and adjunct instructor of philosophy. Her translations of Teresa's poetry and her essays on Teresa’s legacy have appeared in
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry,
The Catholic Poetry Review,
U.S. Catholic,
After the Art, and
Confluence, with a translation forthcoming in a new anthology from
Word on Fire. Delibovi's writing has also appeared in
Apple Valley Review, Bluestem, Ezra Translations, Moria, Noon, Psaltery & Lyre, Salamander,
Slippery Elm and many other journals. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2020
Best American Essays notable essayist, and 2023 co-winner of the Hueston Woods Poetry Contest. Delibovi is Consulting Poetry Editor at the literary e-zine
Cable Street. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and holds MA degrees from New York University (philosophy) and Bank Street College of Education (early childhood education). She lives in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri.
Molly Peacock is a poet and a biographer whose multi-genre literary life has taken her from New York City to Toronto, from poetry to prose, from lyric self-examination to curiosity about the lives of others. Her latest poetry collection is
The Widow’s Crayon Box (W.W. Norton), a A book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. Peacock is the author of eight books of poetry, including
The Analyst: Poems and
Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, as well as
A Friend Sails in on a Poem, about a 47-year friendship in poetry. Peacock is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses, the founder of
The Best Canadian Poetry series and, most recently, creator of The Secret Poetry Room at Binghamton University. Awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Canada Council, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Peacock is also a memoirist and biographer, author of two books about creativity in the lives of women artists
Flower Diary and
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, named a Book of the Year by
Booklist, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times, The Kansas City Star, The London Evening Standard, MacLean’s, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette and
The Sunday Telegraph. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, she lives in Toronto and teaches at 92NY.