Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014), which was selected for the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Guernica, MiPOesias, and The Pushcart Prize XXXIX, among others. A recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Getty Research Institute, and the Jentel Foundation, she is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.