Dorothea Lasky is the author of several collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Shining  and MOTHER. She is also the author of the prose book Animal and a forthcoming book about Sappho, as well as the editor of Essays and a coeditor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among other places. Currently, she lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts.