Kerry Carnahan’s poems and essays can be found in Boston Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Barrow Street, WARSCAPES, and are forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Whale Road Review, and F I V E S. She is an editor at New Poetry in Translation and in 2017 she was named a runner-up in the 92Y ‘Discovery’/Boston Review poetry contest. She was born and raised in Kansas.