Beth Bachmann is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of three books from the University of Pittsburgh Press’s Pitt Poetry Series: Temper (2009), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and Claremont Graduate University’s Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Do Not Rise (2015), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award; and CEASE (2018), winner of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize. She lives in New York City, N.Y.