Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath, selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Sally Keith. She grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range, and currently resides in Brooklyn. A graduate of Bennington College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her writing has appeared in The Nation, POETRY, Poets & Writers, The American Poetry Review, Lana Turner, The Harvard Advocate, Ploughshares, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere.