Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu (Teaching as a Team)
David Perry
Children's Literature and Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing
Poetry Writing

Joshua Edwards is the founder and co-editor The Canary literary journal and Canarium Books (www.canariumbooks.org), a poetry press sponsored by the University of Michigan, where he received his MFA and worked as a creative writing instructor.  He spent last year as a Fulbright grantee in Oaxaca, Mexico, and he's received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Literary Arts, Inc. and the University of Michigan International Institute.  His poems have appeared in Slate, Colorado Review, The Literary Review, Northwest Review, Ninth Letter and elsewhere, and his translations of Mexican poet Maria Baranda have appeared in such publications as Chicago Review, Circumference, LIT, Washington Square and Zoland Poetry.  He currently teaches English and works as an independent poetry consultant for the Poetry Foundation.

Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai and grew up in Chicago.  She received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from Brown University, where she taught courses in poetry and creative writing.  Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, Court Green, EOAGH, 6x6, KGB Lit, Tinfish and The Walrus.  She has received awards selected by Anne Carson, Fanny Howe, Lyn Hejinian and Charles Wright.  Her chapbook June is available from Corollary Press.  She co-edits Canarium Books with Joshua Edwards, Robyn Schiff and Nick Twemlow.  She's currently back in Shanghai on a Fulbright grant to finish her second manuscript of poems.


Born and raised in the midwestern United States, David Perry lived in Brooklyn, New York for six years after earning an MFA in comparative literature from the University of Iowa.  He has published one full-length collection of poetry, Range Finder, and two limited-edition chapbooks, Knowledge Follows and New Years, as well as poetry, translations and criticism in magazines, journals and anthologies including The Baffler, Tinfish, The Poker, No: A Journal of the Arts, The Poetry Project Newsletter and The New European Poets.  Before Shanghai, David lived and worked in Berlin and Mexico as well as New York, the US Virgin Islands and Kansas City.  He lives with his wife, the painter Monika Lin, and their daughter Sophia.  David has taught creative writing, composition and literature at the University of Iowa, St. John's University (New York), the University of Missouri (Kansas City), the Kansas City Art Institute and New York University's Shanghai Center.

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Children's Literature & Fiction Writing
Fiction Writing
Poetry Writing