Elizabeth Willis is the author of Alive (New York Review Books, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Address (Wesleyan, 2011); Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2007); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). She also writes about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. A new book of poems and prose is forthcoming next year, and a collection of essays is in the works. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.