MIRANDA BEESON is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) as well as Ode to the Unexpected (Shrinking Violet Press) and The Jones of It, a recent finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poems have received Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award, a Jody Donohue Poetry Prize, the Chicagoland Poets & Writers Sonnet Award, and have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She received an MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, and lives in NYC and the North Fork of Long Island where she writes, teaches, and consults. www.mirandabeeson.com