November 20, 2022: Mary Buchinger and Monica Ferrell

Mary Buchinger, author of VIROLOGY (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), /klaʊdz/ (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021), e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015; shortlisted for the May Swenson Poetry Award, the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry, and the Perugia Press Prize), Roomful of Sparrows (Finishing Line, 2008; New Women’s Voices Series semi-finalist), and Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming, 2023), has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Virginia Poetry Society, a Norton Island Residency, and multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Hollins Critic, Nimrod, Plume, Salt Hill, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. www.MaryBuchinger.com.

Monica Ferrell is the author of a novel and two books of poetry, most recently the collection You Darling Thing (Four Way, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA programs at Columbia University and Bennington College, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY).