Ann Lauinger's previous books of poetry are Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah, 2004), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013). Her poems have appeared in publications from Alimentum to Zone 3, including The Cumberland River Review, Georgia Review, Lightwood, Michigan Quarterly Review, Parnassus, The Same, Smartish Pace, and The Southern Poetry Review. Translations have appeared in Levania, The Massachusetts Review, and Transference. Her work has been included in anthologies such as The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Decomposition, and In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare and been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. Professor Emerita of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College, she is a member of the Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee and lives in Ossining, New York.