Sarah Carson is the author of several poetry collections, including How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan (2022), winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Slowdown, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast, among others. She is the inaugural poet laureate of the Kobayashi Society for the Appreciation of Hot Dogs. You can read more of her work at stuffsarahwrote.com.