New Media Working Group Panel Members

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  Michael Collier Poet and editor Michael Collier is a professor of English at the University of Maryland and poetry editor at Houghton Mifflin. His latest collection of poems, The Ledge, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received Guggenheim, NEA, and Thomas Watson fellowships, and since 1994 he has served as the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
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  Wyn Cooper Poet and lyricist Wyn Cooper has published three books of poems as well as stories, essays, and reviews. His poem “Fun” was the basis for Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do.” He has written songs with David Broza, David Baerwald, and Madison Smartt Bell. Songs by Bell and Cooper appear on two CDs (most recently, Postcards out of the Blue) and can be heard on six TV shows. Wyn lives in Vermont, where he helps run the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
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  Rita Dove A poet, playwright, and former poet laureate of the United States, Rita Dove is the Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, including the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. Rita has also written texts for major musical works and collaborated with John Williams on Steven Spielberg’s The Unfinished Journey. Photo: Fred Viebahn
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  Cornelius Eady Poet and playwright Cornelius Eady is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame and co-founder of Cave Canem. He has collaborated with jazz composer Diedre Murray, and he wrote the libretto for the opera You Don’t Miss Your Water as well as Running Man, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the NEA. Photo: Chip Cooper
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  David Fenza Poet, professor, and arts administrator David Fenza is the executive director of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, an organization dedicated to serving writers, teachers, and writing programs. AWP also publishes The Writer’s Chronicle.
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  Kate Gale Editor, writer, and arts manager Kate Gale is managing editor of Red Hen Press. A teacher at Antioch University Los Angeles, she speaks at universities and writing conferences on publishing, editing, and publicity. She was the 2005–06 president of PEN USA; serves on the boards of Claremont Graduate University School of Arts and Humanities, A Room of Her Own Foundation, and Poetry Society of America; and is president of the American Composers Forum Los Angeles.
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  Kimiko Hahn Poet Kimiko Hahn is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her seven collections of poetry include The Unbearable Heart, which won the American Book Award. Kimiko was the screenwriter for the film collaboration Everywhere at Once, based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau, which premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was presented at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Photo: Harold Schechter
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  Lewis Hyde Poet, translator, essayist, and critic Lewis Hyde is currently the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. His many honors include fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, as well as residencies at the Getty Museum and San Francisco’s Exploratorium. His internationally acclaimed book The Gift tries to reconcile creative work with a market economy.
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  Fiona McCrae Fiona McCrae is publisher and executive director of Graywolf Press, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit literary presses and the publisher of numerous award-winning collections of poems. She was previously a director and editor at Faber and Faber and has served on the board of the Council of Independent Magazines and Presses.
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  Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky is the poetry editor of the online magazine Slate and a professor at Boston University. A three-time poet laureate of the United States, Robert founded the Favorite Poem Project; the project’s most recent anthology is An Invitation to Poetry, which includes a DVD featuring Americans reading and talking about beloved poems. He is the author of the award-winning books The Figured Wheel and The Inferno of Dante and, most recently, Gulf Music. Photo: Juliet Van Otteren
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  Claudia Rankine The Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College, Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry and co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century: Where Lyric Meets Language and American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics. Her play Detour opens in 2009 at the Foundry Theater in New York. She has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the NEA, and the Lannan Foundation.
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  Alberto Ríos Poet Alberto Ríos is the Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University. Alberto is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His work has been included in over 200 national and international anthologies and has been translated and adapted to dance and both classical and popular music. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA.
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  Don Selby Don Selby is co-editor of Poetry Daily (poems.com), which he founded following a career in law publishing. Poetry Daily’s mission is to help make contemporary poetry part of everyday life by making it easier for people to discover new poetry and for poets and publishers to bring news of their work to more people. He has served on grant and award panels for the NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts and is co-editor of two Poetry Daily anthologies.
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  Rick Stevens Rick Stevens is a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago, associate laboratory director for computing and life sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, and a senior fellow of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute, a multidisciplinary organization aimed at connecting computing to all areas of inquiry at the university and the laboratory. Rick also heads the Argonne/Chicago Futures Lab, a research group he founded to investigate problems in large-scale scientific visualization and advanced collaboration environments.
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  Jennifer Urban Jennifer Urban teaches intellectual property and classes related to technology law and policy at the University of Southern California, where she also directs the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic and is a member of the USC Center for Communication Law and Policy. A fellow of the USC Annenberg Center for Communication, Jennifer was a visiting professor of law at, and interim director of, the Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic during the 2007–08 academic year.
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  Monica Youn Monica Youn is counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she focuses on constitutional litigation. Previously she was in private practice as a media and intellectual property lawyer. Her first book of poems, Barter, was published in 2003 by Graywolf Press; a new work, Ignatz, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2010. She has received poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University, and has been an adjunct professor of creative writing at Pratt Institute and Columbia University.

New Media Working Group Advisors

Katharine Coles Katharine Coles has just begun her two-year appointment as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. Her most recent collection of poems, Fault, came out in 2008; she has also published novels and essays and has collaborated with various visual artists on projects resulting in both temporary and permanent installations. She is a professor at the University of Utah, where she founded and co-directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature. In 2006 she was named to a five-year term as poet laureate of Utah.

Jaune Evans Jaune Evans is the president of Creative Community Projects, Ltd., in Port Townsend, Washington. She works with fine-arts programs, human rights and cultural organizations, indigenous and environmental groups, and innovative community projects. Jaune served as the executive director of programs at the Lannan Foundation for 10 years, and prior to that as the executive director of the New Mexico Community Foundation and as the deputy director of public health for the state of New Mexico. She currently works as a consultant to several national and international foundations.

Beth Allen The project manager for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Beth Allen has been with the Poetry Foundation since 2004. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as executive assistant to Stanley Fish at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and coordinated the Field Museum of Natural History’s lecture series.