About Bloom Readers
April 30, 2023

Jeffrey McDaniel
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, MFA George Mason University. Author of seven books of poetry, most recently Thin Ice Olympics (Write Bloody Books), 2022. Jeff’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review and Best American Poetry (1994, 2010 and 2019). He is also a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Ann Lauinger
Ann Lauinger’s books of poetry are Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah, 2004), which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013), and Dime Saint, Nickel Devil (Broadstone Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and in publications including The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Cumberland River Review, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus, and The Southern Poetry Review. Ann is Professor emerita of literature at Sarah Lawrence College and a former editor of Slapering Hol Press. She is a member of the Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee and lives in Ossining, NY.
Maya Pindyck
Maya Pindyck's third book poems Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023), won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Pleiades, Tablet Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and SWWIM Every Day. Maya received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.