Kate Colby is author of ten books of poetry, including I Mean, Dream of the Trenches, and Reverse Engineer. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut, and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Harper’s, Lana Turner, LitHub, and The Nation. She lives in Providence and also teaches for UPenn’s Modern & Contemporary American Poetry MOOC.