Paula Cisewski's sixth full-length collection, The Becoming Game, is newly released from Hanging Loose Press this spring of 2025. She's also the author of ​Ceremonies for No Repair (Beauty School Editions, 2024), Quitter​ (Diode Editions' Book Prize),  The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Books), Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks. Cisewski has been awarded residencies and fellowships from organizations including the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She lives in Minneapolis where she teaches, makes collaged and printed matter, curates poetry for The Waves Cabaret, and co-edits Beauty School Editions, LLC.