Melissa Broder is the author of three previous poetry collections, most recently Scarecrone. She is also the author of the essay collection, So Sad Today. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, Fence, The Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square Review, Redivider, Court Green, The Awl, Drunken Boat, et al. She lives in Venice, California.