Christina Mengert is the author of As We Are Sung (Burning Deck) and coeditor of 12×12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (University of Iowa Press). A contributor to Tarpaulin Sky, Tupelo Quarterly, Web Conjunctions and other publications, Mengert is also an editor for The Sheep Meadow Press, filmmaker, and teacher for the Bard College Prison Initiative.