Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-four books, including Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle and DARK HORSE: Poems. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a staff blogger at the Kenyon Review, a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly, and a freelance book critic at the New York Times Book Review.