Alyse Knorr is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and; since 2017; co-editor of Switchback Books. Her most recent book of poems; MEGA-CITY REDUX (Switchback Books; 2016) won the 2016 Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize; selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis. She is also the author of the poetry collections COPPER MOTHER (Switchback Books; 2016) and ANNOTATED GLASS (Furniture Press Books; 2013); the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books; 2016); and four poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic; Poetry Magazine; Alaska Quarterly Review; Denver Quarterly; and The Georgia Review; among others. She received her MFA from George Mason University.