About the Author

Laura Sims is the author of MY GOD IS THIS A MAN, STRANGER, and PRACTICE, RESTRAINT (all from Fence Books), and five chapbooks of poetry. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson (powerHouse Books), a book of her correspondence with the celebrated experimental novelist. Sims has been a featured writer for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, and has been a co-editor of Instance Press since 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at NYU-SPS and lives with her family in Brooklyn. STAYING ALIVE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) is her fourth book of poetry.