Catie Rosemurgy is the author of the poetry collections My Favorite Apocalypse and The Stranger Manual, published by Graywolf Press. Her most recent work, First the Burning, is a limited-edition chapbook from Bloof Blooks. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the College of New Jersey.