ELIZABETH WILLIS is the author of Liontaming in America (New Directions), a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theater, activism, and film. Her other books of poetry include Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Address, Meteoric Flowers, Turneresque, The Human Abstract, and the artist’s book Spectral Evidence. She also wrote about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.