We Should Keep Living,

Katie Ford is the author of Deposition and Colosseum and the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband and newborn daughter. (updated 5/2011)

Shane McCrae is the author of Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and two chapter books: One Neither One (Octopus Books, 2009) and In Canaan (Rescue Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, African American Review, AGNI, New Orleans Review, No Tell Motel, The Best American Poetry 2010, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Typo, Esque, and others. He has attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard Law School. He is working toward a PhD in English at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City. (updated 5/2011)