Lauren Haldeman is the author ofInstead of Dying, winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Calenday and the artist book The Eccentricity is Zero. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Fence, the Iowa Review and the Rumpus. A comic book artist and poet, she has taught in the U.S. as well as internationally. She has been a recipient of the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can find her online at laurenhaldeman.com