Yerra Sugarman’s most recent book of poems, Aunt Bird (Four Way Books), won the American Book Fest’s 2022 Best Book Award for General Poetry, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and for the New England Poetry Club’s Motton Book Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Nation, New England Review and elsewhere. She is an American poet, essayist, and teacher, living in New York City. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she grew up in a community of Holocaust survivors in Toronto. She previously served as Secretary of Yetzirah’s Board of Directors.

Dan Rosenberg‘s books include Bassinet, cadabra, and The Crushing Organ, which won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He has also published several chapbooks, including Thigh’s Hollow, which won the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. Rosenberg co-translated Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome, and his translation of Komelj’s new and selected poems, Night Is More Abstract, was released by Zephyr Press in 2026. Rosenberg holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Georgia, where he was a Presidential Fellow. He has taught at Iowa, Georgia, Augustana College, Wells College, and Cornell University. A former Tompkins County Poet Laureate, he is currently an associate professor of English at Colorado Mesa University. A co-host of the Yetzirah Reading Series, Rosenberg lives in Fruita, CO, with the poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, their son, and their medium-good dog.

Joanna Chen’s full-length poetry translations include Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books), Frayed Light (Wesleyan University Press, finalist for The Jewish Book Award), and but first I call your name (Shearsman Books). She is also the translator of My Wild Garden (Penguin/Random House) and Shooting in America (Penguin, winner of the Paper Brigade Award for New Israeli Fiction). Her work has also been published in Asymptote, Waxwing, Mantis and La Piccioletta Barca, among numerous others. Her poetry, essays and interviews have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Monthly, Lilith and Narratively, among several others. She teaches literary translation at The Helicon School of Poetry in Tel Aviv. Joanna was a Fellow at the 2024 and 2026 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conferences.