ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Sims is the author of three books of poems: My god is this a man (forthcoming, Fence Books, 2013), Stranger (Fence Books, 2009), and Practice, Restraint, (winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize), and of five chapbooks, including POST- (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2012). She has been a recipient of the Japan-US Friendship Commission’s Creative Artists Residency, and she is a co-editor of Instance Press with poets Elizabeth Robinson and Beth Anderson. She has written book reviews and essays for Evening Will Come, New England Review, Rain Taxi, Boston Review, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. She teaches at NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son.