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Matthew RohrerMatthew Rohrer is the author of 6 books of poems, most recently A Plate Of Chicken from Ugly Duckling Presse. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote Gentle Reader!?a secretly published book of erasures of the Romantics. It is not for sale. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, editor and archivist. Her first full length book, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory, was published in late 2019 by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of six chapbooks with recent writing available or forthcoming from A Glimpse Of, Black Warrior Review, and Armstrong Literary Review. Anna is 1/3 of DoubleCross Press, a handmade poetry micro-press, and she puts people’s poems online at counterpoetry dot com. Anna lives in Brooklyn, NY, a few blocks from where she was born and raised. For more info visit annagw.com / @anna.as.metaphor
