Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two poetry collections, The End of Pink (BOA, 2016) and Rag & Bone (Elixer, 2011) as well as the lyric essay collection, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past (OSU Press, 2017). Recent work appears in 32 Poems, Crazyhorse, Field, Gettysburg Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor of creative writing at University of Central Missouri, where she also serves as the director of Pleiades Press.