Sasha Steensen (she/her) is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Everything Awake (Shearsman) and Well (Parlor Press). She also writes long-form essays, two of which can be read online at Essay Press and Tupelo Quarterly. She is currently at work on a hybrid project, Overland: An Incomplete History of Three Acres and All that Surrounds, that documents the seizure, and subsequent development, of hundreds of acres of Native American Land in Northern Colorado. She teaches at Colorado State University, where she was named the 2023 Stern Distinguished Professor. Steensen serves on the advisory board for the Test Site Poetry Series, and as a poetry editor for Colorado Review.