About the Author

Sarah Vap is the author DUMMY FIRE, winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Forrest Gander. Her second collection, American Spikenard (2006), was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2006. She currently lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington with her husband and two sons. She is also the author of FAULKNER'S ROSARY (2010) and ARCO IRIS (2012), both from Saturnalia Books, and END OF THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (Noemi Press, 2013).