Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers (University of Massachusetts, 2017), winner of the Juniper Prize. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, available from Horsethief Books. Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, and her essays and interviews have appeared in PN Review, The Rumpus, and Boston Review. Elizabeth is the Poetry Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal. Read more of her work at elizabethmetzger.com