Hello, I’m

and I’m a writer, an editor, and a Midwesterner. I serve as an editor at Milkweed Editions and as founding coeditor of Strange Hymnal. I earned my MFA in poetry and publishing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where I worked as an undergraduate instructor and publishing staff at Lookout Books and Ecotone. I have spent a lot of time in forests and aquariums and think often about whales, Mulholland Drive, the anglerfish, pinecone identification, and Catholic paganism. My favorite tree, not including specific individuals in various places across the country, is either a bald cypress or a coastal redwood. I’m a massive fan of megaflora, megafauna, superlative creatures, and ancient fish. I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with my husband and our two cats, Bamboo and Fig.