J’Lyn Chapman’s essays and prose poems have been published in Conjunctions, Fence, Sentence, and American Letters & Commentary, among other journals. Calamari Press published the chapbook, Bear Stories; the pedagogy-of-conversation chapbook The Form Our Curiosity Takes is forthcoming from Essay Press. She teaches in the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and edits the online poetics journal Something on Paper.