The House of Grana Padano

Meg Pokrass is the author of Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011) and Bird Envy (Printed on Paige, 2014). Her flash fiction appears in 200 literary journals including Green Mountains Review, Five Points, storySouth, McSweeney's, and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton, 2015). Meg serves as associate editor for Rick Barthelme's New World Writing. She lives in San Francisco with a dog and two cats.

JEFF FRIEDMAN is the author of ten collections of poetry and prose, including Ashes in Paradise (Madhat Press, November 2023), The House of Grana Padano (Pelekinesis Press, April 2022, cowritten with Meg Pokrass), The Marksman (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), and Floating Tales (Plume Editions/Madhat Press, 2017). Friedman's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Cast-Iron Aeroplanes That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Funny, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, The New Republic, and Best Microfiction 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. He has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, two individual Artist Grants from New Hampshire Arts Council. and numerous other awards and prizes. Friedman is married to the painter Colleen Randall, and they live with their dog Ruby, a mini Aussie, in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. He can often be seen in a large Wallaroo wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses walking 7-10 miles every day with Ruby, whose wondrous barking has become renowned all over New Hampshire and across the border in Vermont.https: //poetjefffriedman.com