"Caitlin Grace McDonnell brings an exciting, dark explicitness to poetry," wrote Jon Ashbery. She has published her poems and essays widely, including two books of poems: Looking For Small Animals (2012) and Pandemic City (2021), and a chapbook, Dreaming The Tree (2003) and is at work on a memoir. A queer/bi single-mother, cold-water plunger, and longtime adjunct writing professor, she mostly resides in Brooklyn, NY with her teenage daughter and little dog Olive, but also escapes to a quiet lake upstate.