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JULIA BLOCH grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia. Her most recent book of poetry is The Sacramento of Desire. She is the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and she directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

MAXE CRANDALL is a poet, playwright, and director. His performance novel about AIDS archives and intergenerational memory The Nancy Reagan Collection made the New York Public Library’s Best 10 Poetry Books of 2020, LitHub’s 65 Favorite Books of 2020, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. He is the author of the chapbooks Emoji for Cher Heart and Together Men Make Paradigms, and is the founder of the theater company Beautiful Moments in Popular Culturewhich most recently materialized as a poets theater series at The Stud in San Francisco. Maxe is Associate Director of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Stanford University.