Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) and The Eccentricity is Zero (Digraph Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Tin House, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Fence and The Rumpus. A comic book artist and poet, she has been a recipient of the Colorado Prize for Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can find her online at http://laurenhaldeman.com