David Gates and Carmen Giménez Smith

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | David Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan (Knopf, 1991) and Preston Falls (Knopf, 1998), and two collections of stories, The Wonders of the Visible World (Knopf, 1999) and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (Knopf, 2015). Gates’s fiction, articles, and reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Tin House, Granta, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, and frequently in Newsweek, where he was a longtime writer and editor. He’s received a Guggenheim fellowship, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. She was
awarded an American Book Award and the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing (Counterpath Press, 2014), serves on the planning committee for Canto Mundo and is publisher of Noemi Press. Cruel Futures, her next collection will be a volume in the City Lights Spotlight Series in 2018. Be Recorder is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2019.