Leah Falk’s poems and criticism have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Crab Orchard Review,Haaretz and Yemassee. She received an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she is now a Zell Postgraduate Fellow. Falk won the 2012 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace and her work appears in Issue 20. [bio updated 2013]