Monica Youn’s first collection Barter was published by Graywolf Press in 2003, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently in Tin House and forthcoming in Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Awards include the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. She works as a media and entertainment lawyer in Manhattan. Her second collection Ignatz, a series of poems loosely based on the mouse character from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s-30s, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey.