Becca Klaver is a writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and literary collaboration conjurer. She is the author of several chapbooks and the poetry collections READY FOR THE WORLD (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), LA LIMINAL (Kore Press, 2010), and Empire Wasted (Bloof Books). A founding editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, she is currently coediting, with Arielle Greenberg, the anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books). Becca holds a BA from the University of Southern California, an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, and a PhD from Rutgers University. She is the Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts at Cornell College. Born and raised in Milwaukee, she lives in Iowa City.