About the Author

Moira Egan’s previous books are Botanica Arcana/Strange Botany (Italic Pequod, 2014); Hot Flash Sonnets (Passager Books, 2013); Spin (Entasis Press, 2010); La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie (Edizioni l’Obliquo, 2009); Bar Napkin Sonnets (winner of The Ledge 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition); and Cleave (WWPH, 2004). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008; The Book of Forms; The Book of Scented Things; and Measure for Measure. With her husband, Damiano Abeni, she has published more than a dozen volumes in translation in Italy, by authors such as Ashbery, Barth, Bender, Ferlinghetti, Hecht, Simic, Strand, Charles Wright, and others. She lives in Rome.