Marvin Bell: Marvin Bell’s works include collaborations with musicians, composers, dancers, poets and photographers--among them, poet William Stafford and photographer Nathan Lyons--and volumes of an original poetic form most recently collected in Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems.

Christopher Merrill's recent books include Boat (poetry), Necessities (prose poetry), and The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War ( nonfiction). His work has been translated into over thirty languages, and as the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa he has conducted cultural diplomacy missions in more than fifty countries.