Stefanie Marlis's latest book of poems is cloudlife. C.D. Wright calls it "Aphoristic, enigmatic, and startling. Part elegy for her father and the brisance of his twentieth century, part cautionary tale for this one. Once more Marlis converts an intimate history into a distinctive, austere expression." Among her other books of poems are Slow Joy, which won the 1989 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, rife, and fine, which was a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.  She has also authored the novel Love (K)not.

Carol Moldaw's new book of poems is So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems; "Out of acutely observed, deeply felt particulars the poems balance intimacy and objectivity in exact, lyric language." Author of four previous books of poetry, which are represented in the new book with a generous selection of new poetry, as well as a novel, Moldaw has received  a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer's Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.

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