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Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland. His books include six previous novels: *Cowboys and Indians* (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), *Desperadoes*, *The Salesman*, *Inishowen*, *Star of the Sea*, and *Redemption Falls*. *Star of the Sea* became an international bestseller, winning the *Irish Post* Award for Literature, and France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. His work has been published in thirty-five languages.

Danny Postel is the author of *Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran* (2006) and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of *The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future* (2011). He is the editor of *The Common Review*, a contributing editor of *Logos*, and Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice.

Nader Hashemi teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of *Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies* (2009) and co-editor, with Danny Postel, of *The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future* (2011).

Michael Fischer teaches anthropology at MIT. His books include *Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution* (1980), *Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition* (1990), *Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry* (2004), and *Anthropological Futures* (2009).

Peter Campion is the author of two collections of poems, *Other People*, and *The Lions*. He is the editor of *Literary Imagination* and teaches at Auburn University.

Dan Chiasson's latest book is *Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems*. He teaches at Wellesley College.

Henri Cole is a poet currently living in Boston.

Bonnie Costello is a professor of English at Boston University. Her most recent book is *Plants on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World*.

Jonathan Galassi is a poet, translator, and president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Maggie Dietz is the author of *Perennial Fall*. She is currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

Saskia Hamilton is a poet living in New York City. She is a professor at Barnard College and is co-editor of the collected correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.