LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Baker is author of twelve books of poetry, including "Scavenger Loop" and "Never-Ending Birds" (both from W. W. Norton), awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His books of prose include "Show Me Your Environment" (Michigan University Press) and "Radiant Lyre" (Graywolf... Read More →

Lynch is Poet-in-Residence at Butler University in Indianapolis. She has received several fellowships, including residencies at Yaddo and the Macdowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Lynch is the... Read More →

McCrae is the author of five books of poetry: "In the Language of My Captor," which was short-listed for the National Book Award and is a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry; "The Animal Too Big to Kill," winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award; "Forgiveness... Read More →

Muske-Dukes is the author of eight books of poetry, her newest: "Blue Rose," just published by Penguin. She’s also author of four novels, two collections of essays & an anthology of poems, "Crossing State Lines" with Bob Holman. She has been a National Book Award finalist, an... Read More →

Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including "Incendiary Art," winner of the 2018 Kingsley TuftsPoetry Award and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; "ShouldaBeen Jimi Savannah... Read More →