Jericho Brown’s first book, “Please” (New Issues), won the American Book Award, and his most recent collection, “The New Testament,” was released in September 2014 by Copper Canyon Press.

Olena Kalytiak Davis’s debut, “And Her Soul Out of Nothing,” was selected for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her latest collection, “The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems,” is out from Copper Canyon Press in 2014.