January 11: Luisa Muradyan, Lily Brown, & Philip Schultz

Luisa Muradyan is originally from Odesa, Ukraine, and is the author of I Make Jokes When I’m Devastated (Bridwell Press, 2025), When the World Stopped Touching (YesYes Books, 2027), and American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She is the winner of the 2017 Raz/ Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize and a member of the Cheburashka Collective. Additional work can be found at Best American Poetry, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Only Poems, among others.

Lily Brown is the author of Blade Work (Parlor Press, winner of the 2023 New Measures Poetry Prize), Rust or Go Missing (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), and several chapbooks, including The Haptic Cold (Ugly Duckling Presse). Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, Mississippi Review, and Oversound, among others. She has won the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and has been awarded residencies at Arte Studio Ginistrelle, the Vermont Studio Center, and the UCross Foundation. She lives in Maine with her family and works as a writing teacher.

Philip Schultz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Failure. His new poetry collection is Enormous Morning, which will appear in early 2026, and his most recent collection is, Luxury, (W.W. Norton 2018). He’s the founder and director of The Writers Studio, a private school for creative writing started in 1987. Schultz received a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry as well as poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.