Alyse Knorr is the author of Copper Mother (Switchback Books, 2015), Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books, 2013) and the chapbook Alternates (dancing girl press, 2014). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ZYZZYVA, Drunken Boat, and The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press, 2012), among others. She received her MFA from George Mason University. Alyse teaches English at the University of Alaska Anchorage and serves as a founding co-editor of Gazing Grain Press, an inclusive feminist poetry press.