Sasha West’s first book, Failure and I Bury the Body (Harper Perennial, 2013), was a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review Online, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of creative writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. (updated 4/2020)