Elizabeth Willis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Liontaming in America, a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theatre, activism, and film, and Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also writes about the intersection of art and labor. Willis is the editor of the essay collection Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.