Teicher's first book of poems, Brenda Is In The Room and Other Poems, won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, A Public Space and Jubilat. His reviews of poetry and fiction appear in Time Out New York, Boston Review and Bookforum, and he is the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly. His latest book is The Cradle Book.
Youn lives in New York, where she is an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, focusing on election law issues. Her political commentary has appeared in Slate, Roll Call, and The Huffington Post. For her work on her new book of poetry, Ignatz, she has been awarded the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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