Poetry Project: Ben Mirov & Solmaz Sharif January 24, 2011

Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of 'Ghost Machine' (Caketrain, 2010) and 'I is to Vorticism' (New Michigan Press, 2010). He is poetry editor of LIT Magazine. Solmaz Sharif was born in Istanbul to Iranian parents. She holds a BA in Sociology and Women of Color Writers from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She has been the managing director of The Asian American Writers' Workshop since January 2010.