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Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin was the judge of Kore Press’ 2006 First Book Award, and chose Sandra Lim’s Loveliest Grotesque as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Lim’s book here. Marilyn Chin is an award-winning

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland was the judge of Kore Press’ 2005 First Book Award, and chose Elline Lipkin’s The Errant Thread as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Lipkin’s book here. Eavan Boland was born

Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché was the judge of Kore Press’ 2004 First Book Award, and chose Deborah Fries’ Various Modes of Departure as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Fries’ book here. Carolyn Forché

Jane Miller

Jane Miller was the judge of Kore Press’ 2003 First Book Award, and chose Jennifer Barber’s Rigging the Wind as the winning poetry manuscript. Find Barber’s book here. Jane Miller is

Erika L. Sánchez

Erika L. Sánchez (she/her/hers) is a Fulbright and Bread Loaf Scholar, CantoMundo Fellow, and winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Witness, Hunger Mountain, Crab