Leah Umansky is the author of The Barbarous Century and Domestic Uncertainties among others. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. The poem "Off Ghazal," owes a debt to Ocean Vuong and The On Being Podcast, "It Took a Disaster," owes a debt to New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo. You can visit her site at www.leahumansky.com