Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and elsewhere, and she was selected for Best New Poets 2015. Her first book, Cleavemark, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press this year. She frequently collaborates with other artists, most recently with Jeff Pike on the illustrated chapbook, Strangers with a Lifeboat, and with Cheryl Wassenaar on the installation “Cleavemark Drive.” Schlaifer earned her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and now lives in St. Louis.
