Kirsten Ihns is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a Ph.D student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow in English Literature at the University of Chicago, where she studies texts that seem to want to be images. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, The Offing, BOAAT, inter|rupture, Yalobusha Review, DREGINALD, Bennington Review, TAGVVERK, and elsewhere. She is from Atlanta, GA.