Melissa Eppihimer is an art historian teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently working on a study of an illustrated verse drama edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh published by an Anglo-Armenian poet and artist in 1924.
Simon Armitage is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and poet laureate of the United Kingdom. He has published ten collections of poetry and is the author of four stage plays, over a dozen television films, a libretto, two novels, and three memoirs. His poetry has won numerous awards, including a Gregory Award, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
