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Troy Jollimore’s first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2005 Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award, was published in the Margie-Intuit House Poetry Series in 2006, and won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.  He earned his B.A. from The University of Kings College / Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada, 1993) and his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1999).  He taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Davis before joining the the Philosophy faculty at CSU Chico.  His publications in philosophy include “Friendship Without Partiality?” (Ratio 13:1, March 2000), “Why Is Instrumental Rationality Rational?” (Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35:2, June 2005) and a book, Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality (Garland, 2001).  He is also the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on ‘Impartiality.’  His current research concerns various topics in ethical philosophy, many having to do with the concept of desert and its relations to various ethical reasons and obligations, particularly in the context of personal relationships.

Read poems from Tom Thomson in Purgatory.

Read Kevin Prufer’s blog entry and short interview with Troy Jollimore on the National Book Critics Circle blog.

Kate Gale received a BA/MA in English with emphasis on Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in American Literature at Claremont Graduate University and currently serves as president of PEN USA, managing editor of Red Hen Press, and editor of The Los Angeles Review.  She is the author of five poetry collections—Blue Air, Where Crows and Men Collide, Selling the Hammock, Fishers of Men and Mating Season—and Lake of Fire (a novel) and African Sleeping Beauty (a bilingual children’s book).  She is editor of four anthologies including Anyone is Possible (short fiction) and Fake-City Syndrome (essays on American culture).  Widely published, she has read at numerous well known venues and her opera libretto for Rio de Sangre by Don Davis was presented at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Read poems from Mating Season on the Tupelo Press website.

Read an interview with Kate Gale on the Web Del Sol website.
 

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