Amy Lerman received her Master’s and Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Kansas, and her poems have appeared in Rattle, Ember Chasm, Smartish Pace, Common Ground Review, Prime Number, Solstice, Stories That Need to be Told, and other publications. She won the 2015 Art Young Memorial Award for Poetry, took second in the 2014 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry, received honorable mention from Glimmer Train, and was a finalist for the 2020 Slippery Elm Prize, the 2019 and 2017 Princemere Poetry Prizes, the 2019 Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and a 2018 Editor’s Pick for Solstice Magazine.