Shira Dentz is the author of five books, including Sisyphusina (PANK Books), winner of the Nassar Prize, and two chapbooks, including Flounders (Essay Press). Her writing appears in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Quarter After Eight, VOLT, Idaho Review, Black Warrior Review, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Apartment, Lana Turner, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetrysociety.org, and NPR. She’s a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards.