Stephen Massimilla -award winning poet, artist and scholar, & Myra Kornfeld – chef, author and cooking instructor,
website: cookingwiththemuse.com
Email:  stephenmassimilla@gmail.com and myra@myrakornfeld.com

Cooking with The Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry and Literary Fare;

Bios: Myra Kornfeld is a chef, educator, and the author of three previous cookbooks, The Healthy Hedonist, the Healthy Hedonist Holidays, and The Voluptuous Vegan; she teaches in the graduate nutrition program at the Maryland University of Integrative Health and The Natural Gourmet Institute, ………and is the head chef for the website myfoodmyhealth.com. She specializes in team building events and cooking parties.
Stephen Massimilla is a poet, critic, professor, and painter; he received a Stephen F. Austin University Press prize for The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat; the Bordighera Poetry Prize for Forty Floors from Yesterday; the Grolier Poetry Prize for Later on Aiaia; and a Van Renssalaer Award, selected by Kenneth Koch, among other honors. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications. He holds an MFA and PhD from Columbia University and teaches literature, food ethics, and writing at Columbia University and The New School.