Hadara Bar-Nadav is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow and award-winning author of several collections of poetry, among them The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017), Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), and others. In addition, she is coauthor of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2012). She is a professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.