Lucy Ives was born in New York City in 1980, received an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently completing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. She has lived outside the U.S. for extended periods in Hirosaki, Japan, and Paris and has studied French, German, Greek, Japanese, and Latin, among other languages. She is the author of ANAMNESIS (Slope Editions, 2009), NINETIES (Tea Party Republicans Press, 2013), ORANGE ROSES (Ahsahta Press, 2013), and THE WORLDKILLERS (SplitLevel Texts, 2014). A deputy editor with Triple Canopy, the arts magazine and publisher, Ives continues to live in New York.
