Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books in an array of genres, including her newest poetry collection, Death Styles (Nightboat, 2024); the award-winning Toxicon and Arachne; the collaboratively translated Yi Sang: Selected Works; the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks; and The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, a work of goth ecopoetics. A Guggenheim fellow, McSweeney is also the recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the inaugural Fence Modern Poets Series prize, and the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers.