Mikey Swanberg and Erika Meitner

Mikey Swanberg is the author of On Earth as It Is (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press) and Good Grief (VaPress). He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he lives in Chicago.

Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Holy Moly Carry Me, which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in poetry and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022). She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.