Lisa Sewell is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Long Corridor, which won the 2009 Keystone Chapbook Award. She is also coeditor with Claudia Rankine of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007) and Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (Wesleyan, 2012). She is currently working on a series of poems focusing on endangered species. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.