Stephanie Ellis SchlaiferOriginally from Atlanta, Georgia, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of CLEAVEMARK (BOAAT Press, 2016), and her poems have appeared in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, LI, Colorado Review, Fence, and elsewhere. Schlaifer was a semi-finalist for the 2015 Discovery/Boston Review Prize, and she was selected for Best New Poets 2015. She frequently collaborates with other artists, including Jeff Pike on the illustrated chapbook Strangers with a Lifeboat, and most recently with Cheryl Wassenaar on an installation at the Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, based on the poems in CLEAVEMARK. Read More Read Less