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 is the author of Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), cadabra (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press, 2012). He has also written two chapbooks, Thigh’s Hollow (Omnidawn, 2015) and A Thread of Hands (Tilt Press, 2010), and he co-translated Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome (Zephyr Press, 2016). His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. He was named the 2025 Tompkins County Poet Laureate and taught at Cornell University as a Senior Visiting Lecturer from 2024-2025. Rosenberg is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and composition. Rosenberg lives in Fruita, CO, with his wife, the poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, their son, Miles, and their medium good foster-fail doggo, Gumbo.

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.