Howard Debs is a recipient of the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards. His book Gallery is the recipient of a 2017 Best Book Award and 2018 Book Excellence Award. His chapbook Political is the 2021 American Writing Awards winner in poetry. Matthew Silverman is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, and author of The Floating Door and The Breath Before Birds Fly.