Peg Boyers is Executive Editor of Salmagundi Magazine and the author of three previous books of poetry published by the University of Chicago Press: Hard Bread (2002), Honey With Tobacco (2007) and To Forget Venice (2014). She teaches poetry at Skidmore College and at The New York State Summer Writers Institute, and has taught workshops in translation at The Columbia University School of the Arts. Her poems regularly appear in such magazines as The New Republic, Paris Review, Harvard Review and many others. Her recent work includes a series of poems in the journal Liberties and the afterword to the New York Review of Books edition of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon.