NATALIE SHAPERO’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Nation, and other journals. Her most recent book, Stay Dead (Copper Canyon Press), is longlisted for the National Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing (2021), Hard Child (2017), and No Object (2013), and she has performed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at UC Irvine.