Maureen Alsop is the author of a debut novel, Today Yesterday After My Death (Erratum Press, forthcoming) and seven poetry collections: Arbor Vitae; Tender to Empress; Pyre; Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren; and several chapbooks including Sweetwater Ardour; Nightingale Habit; and the dream and the dream you spoke, among others. She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate’s Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Laurel Review, AGNI, Blackbird, Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Missouri Review, Action, Yes, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, Drunken Boat, Memorious, The Kenyon Review. Her translations of the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) are available through Poetry Salzburg Review. She teaches online with the Poetry Barn.