Ann Lauinger
has written two books of poetry: Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah Press, 2004), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and Against Butterflies (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2013). Her poems and translations have appeared in journals such as The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Spillway, and Transference and in anthologies including the Bedford Introduction to Literature and The Cumberland River Review: The First Five Years. Her work is forthcoming in Plant-Human Quarterly, Valley Voices, and the anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe.