LAURA SIMS is the author of the critically acclaimed Looker: A Novel, which is in development for television with eOne and Emily Mortimer’s King Bee Productions. An award-winning poet, Sims has published four poetry collections, and her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, Electric Literature, and more. She and her family live in New Jersey, where she works part-time as a reference librarian and hosts the library’s lecture series.