Kate Northrop is the author of three poetry collections: Clean (Persea Books, 2011), Things Are Disappearing Here, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and runner-up for the James Laughlin Award, and Back Through Interruption, which received the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State University Press. A 2014 recipient of the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writers Prize, Northrop is a contributing editor at The American Poetry Review and teaches in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program. (updated 10/2014)