Ed Pavlić is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia and director of the PhD program in creative writing. He is the author of Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; “Who Can Afford to Improvise?”: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric, and the Listeners; Visiting Hours at the Color Line; But Here Are Small Clear Refractions; Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway; Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue; Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture; and Labors Lost Left Unfinished. “Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera” and “Another Kind of Madness: A Novel in 88 Improvisations” are forthcoming. Pavlić has won the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award, the National Poetry Series Open Competition, the American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize, the Writer of the Year Award from the Georgia Writer’s Association, and the Darwin Turner Memorial Award from African American Review. He has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Vermont Studio Center, the Willson Center for the Humanities, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.