Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mark Yakich is Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he is Director of the Center for Editing & Publishing. He is the author of many poetry collections, including Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (2004), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (2008), and Spiritual Exercises (2019), all from Penguin Books. His unconventional guide to reading and writing poems, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (2nd Ed., Bloomsbury, 2022), is taught worldwide.

John Biguenet is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He has published ten books, including Oyster, a novel, and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, as well as The Rising Water Trilogy: Plays and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2015). Six of his plays have been produced nationally and internationally. An O. Henry Award winner for short fiction and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, he worked as a student intern on the first issue of New Orleans Review in 1968 and edited the magazine from 1980 to 1992.