Elizabeth Arnold is the winner of an Amy Lowell traveling grant, a Whiting Writer’s award, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has published three books of poetry, The Reef (1999), Civilization (2006), and Effacement (2010). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, and The Nation. As a Ph.D. student, she discovered an unpublished novel by the British poet, Mina Loy, which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1990. She is on the MFA faculty of University of Maryland and lives outside Washington, DC.