JENNIFER SPERRY STEINORTH's books include A Wake with Nine Shades (2019) and Her Read, A Graphic Poem, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year recipient (2021), both from Texas Review Press. She has received grants from Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers, and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College and her recent work appears in Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Plume, Rhino, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. An interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she lectures at University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor and Traverse City, Michigan.