Larissa Szporluk is the author of four books of poetry: Dark Sky Question (Beacon Press), Isolato (University of Iowa Press), The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (Alice James Books), and Embryos and Idiots (Tupelo Press). Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Chicago Review, Margie, and Poetry, among other journals. An associate professor of English and creative writing at Bowling Green State University, she is also a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.