Kirun Kapur's first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize, the Julie Suk Award and several other prizes. It was published in 2015 by Elixir Press.

Josephine Yu is the author of Prayer Book of the Anxious, winner of the Judge’s Prize of the 15th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards.