About the Authors

Read a conversation in essays in the New York Times ||| Read another collaborative essay in Image Journal

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SUSANNAH NEVISON is the author of two collections of poetry, Lethal Theater (Ohio State University Press, 2019) winner of the 2017 The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. New work has appeared in Tin House, Guernica, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and The New York Times. She teaches at Sweet Briar College.

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MOLLY MCCULLY BROWN is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017) winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, and the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My Body ( Persea Books, 2020.) New work has appeared in Tin House, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, and The New York Times. She teaches at Old Dominion University.