Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013.

Tsering Wangmo’s first book of poems, Rules of the House, was published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (Apogee Press 2011) and In the Absent Everyday (also from Apogee Press). A book of creative non-fiction will soon be published in India from Penguin.

Juliana Leslie’s first book, More Radiant Signal, came out in 2010 from Letter Machine Editions. Her second book of poetry, Green Is For World, winner of the National Poetry Series, will be published this year by Coffee House Press.