Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In (2023), as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed, winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poem-a-Day. Her essays have been published in Boston Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, PN Review, and Lit Hub. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and she teaches in California. You can find her at elizabethmetzger.com.