LAURA KASISCHKE has published ten poetry collections, ten novels, and one short story collection.  Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now – New and Selected Poems (2017) and was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her 2011 poetry collection, Space, In Chains, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Other poetry collections include: The Infinitesimals (2014)  Lilies, Without (2o12), Gardening in the Dark (2004), Dance and Disappear (2002), What It Wasn’t (2002), Fire and Flower (1998), Housekeeping in a Dream (1995) and Wild Brides (1991).  Her poems and stories have been published in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.  She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan, and lives with her husband and son in Chelsea, Michigan.