Lauren RuskLauren Rusk's poems and essays have appeared in Best New Poets (winning the Open Competition Prize), Hotel Amerika, The Wallace Stevens Journal, the Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere. Her books are the poetry collection Pictures in the Firestorm (2ndedition 2015) and a critical study, The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson. She has taught at Stanford University, including its programs in Paris, Oxford, and Berlin, and at Swarthmore College, as well as A Room of Her Own Foundation's retreat. Beyond Stanford, she divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and Oxford, England. Read More Read Less