Erica Hunt and Brando Skyhorse

Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, philanthropy activist, and organizer whose volumes of poetry include Local History, Arcade, Piece Logic, A Day and Its Approximates, and Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Fund for Poetry, and she is a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan. Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, received the PEN/ Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest book is Take This Man: A Memoir, which The Washington Post called “searingly funny and fearless.” He is a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan.