Sarah Rose Nordgren is the author of Best Bones, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Darwin’s Mother, which is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2017. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, Copper Nickel, and American Poetry Review, and she creates intergenre video and text art in collaboration with Kathleen Kelley under the name Smart Snow. Native to North Carolina, Nordgren is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati and an Associate Editor at 32 Poems.