About the Author

EMILY FRAGOS, winner of the 2015 Witter Bynner Prize, is the author of Hostage: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow 2011). She has been the guest poetry editor for Guernica, received the David Craig Austin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim, and is an American Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Award winner. She appears in the film The Fortune Writer and teaches poetry at New York University and Columbia University.