Austen Leah Rose is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Narrative, The Southern Review, Salmagundi, Zyzzyva, The Indiana Review, The Sewanee Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She was the winner of the The Walter Sullivan Award from The Sewanee Review.
