Ruth Baumann is the author of THORNWORK (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), PARSE (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), these tornadoes (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), A Thousand Ars Poeticas (Sixth Finch, 2018), RETRIBUTION BINARY (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), wildcold (Slash Pines Press, 2016) and I'll Love You Forever & Other Temporary Valentines (Salt Hill, 2015). Her poems have been published in Colorado Review, Sonora Review, Sycamore Review, The Journal, Third Coast & others. She received an AWP Intro Journals Project Award in 2014. She holds an MFA from the University of Memphis & is a PhD candidate at Florida State University. Additionally, she is former Managing Editor of The Pinch literary journal, and also was Poetry Editor, Senior Poetry Editor & Assistant Managing Editor of the journal. She has taught both composition classes and creative writing workshops. She currently edits Nightjar Review with Tara Mae Mulroy.