Nina Lindsay + Rosa Lane

Nina Lindsay is the author of Because (2016) and Today’s Special Dish (2007) both from Sixteen Rivers Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, the Colorado Review, Fence, and other journals, and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize.  Lindsay lives in Oakland and works for the Oakland Public Library.

Rosa Lane is author of Tiller North, winner of the 2014 Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Competition released in April 2016, and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has won several awards and appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Rosa has taught at Berkeley City College, Ashland University (Ohio), and Southeast University (Nanjing, China). She currently lives in Berkeley with her partner.