Pamela Alexander’s Left, winner of Beloit Poetry Journal’s 2024 Chad Walsh chapbook award, is forthcoming in the fall. She is the author of four previous collections of poems, most recently Slow Fire. Earlier books were awarded the Yale Younger Poet and Iowa Poetry Prizes, and her work has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies. She taught creative writing at M.I.T. and Oberlin College for many years, and served on the editorial board of FIELD magazine. Her honors include fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute. She lives in Maine.