Series Co-Curators & Hosts
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 serves 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 the chapbooks A Thread of Hands and Thigh’s Hollow, which won the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and he co-translated Slovenian poet Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome. His poems have appeared recently in Kenyon Review, Seneca Review, Conduit, and Broadsided. Rosenberg lives in Ithaca, NY, and teaches at Cornell University. Dan was a Fellow at the 2024 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference.

Q&A Host
Robin Silbergleid is the author of The Baby Book, the memoir Texas Girl, and several chapbooks, most recently In the Cubiculum Nocturnum, as well as co-editor of Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations.  She also works with the international art, oral history, and portraiture project The ART of Infertility; with her collaborators, she co-edited the related anthology Infertilities, A Curation (Wayne State UP, 2023), which won a Midwest Book Award. She lives with her children in East Lansing, Michigan, where she is Professor of English at Michigan State University. Robin was a Contributor at both the 2023 & 2024 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference.

International Event Curator & Host
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 (forthcoming with 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 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference.