Sarah Rose Nordgren is the author of the poetry collections Best Bones (2014), and Darwin’s Mother (forthcoming 2017), both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, Copper Nickel, and American Poetry Review. Native to North Carolina, Nordgren is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati and an Associate Editor at 32 Poems.