February 8: Ori Fienberg, Robyn Schiff, & Martha Rhodes

Ori Fienberg’s debut full-length, called “dazzling and eccentric” by the Chicago Review of Books, is Where Babies Come From (Cornerstone Press, 2024). He is also the author of the micro-chap, Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life (Ghost City Press, 2023) and the chapbook Old Habits, New Markets, the winner of elsewhere’s, 2021 contest. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, Ori’s work has been supported by La Muse Inn, Sundress Academy for the Fine Arts, and Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. Ori’s writing can be found all over including Diagram, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, and the hollow of a tree.

Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (Univ of Pittsburgh Poetry Series), and teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the publisher and executive director of Four Way Books and lives in NYC.

Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin 2023) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was awarded the Four Quartets Prize of the Poetry Society of America. A recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Schiff co-edits the independent poetry press Canarium Books and she is a professor at the University of Chicago, where she is Director of the Program in Creative Writing.