AVA NATHANIEL WINTER is the author of Transgenesis (Milkweed Editions), selected for the 2023 National Poetry Series, and the poetry chapbook Safe House. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, Room, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Winter holds an MFA from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.