The Lumina Podcast team speaks with Donna Stonecipher about her poetry collections, Model City and Transaction Histories. 

Donna Stonecipher grew up in Seattle and Tehran. She is the author of five books of poetry: The Reservoir, Souvenir de Constantinople, The Cosmopolitan, Model City, and Transaction Histories. She also published a book of criticism titled Prose Poetry and the City. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review, New American Writing, and Conjunctions, and have been translated into eight languages. She translates from German, and her translation of Swiss author Ludwig Hohl's novella Ascent was published in 2012. She lives in Berlin.