House and Fire

Maria Hummel: A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Maria Hummel is the author of two novels, and poetry and prose in Poetry, Narrative, The Missouri Review, Pushcart Prizes XXXVI, and The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.

Fanny Howe: Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry, and her Selected Poems(UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. In 2009 she received and Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Poetry Foundation.