Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac

Alex Dimitrov (born in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a poet who grew up in the United States and now lives in New York City. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught creative writing at Princeton, Columbia, Barnard, and other institutions. His poetry explores intimacy, celebrity, loneliness, and contemporary American life through a collage of voices and cultural references. He is the author of Begging for It (Four Way Books, 2013), Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and Love and Other Poems (Copper Canyon, 2021). He received the Stanley Kunitz Prize from American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. He formerly served as Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets and cofounded the Wilde Boys queer poetry salon.

Dorothea Lasky (born 1978, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American poet, essayist, and educator known for her intensely expressive, confessional, and spiritually charged writing. She is the author of six full-length collections: AWE (Wave Books, 2007), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Milk (Wave Books, 2018), and The Shining (Wave Books, 2023). Her work, which has influenced a generation of younger writers, appears in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. She earned a BA from Washington University, an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. A 2013 Bagley Wright Fellow, she is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts.