Erin M. Bertram is the author of twelve chapbooks, including from The Vanishing of Camille Claudel and Memento Mori, and has recently received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences. Their work has appeared in Leveler, Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness, as a published finalist in the Diagram Essay Contest, and elsewhere. They live in Lincoln, NE, where they’re working on a doctorate in Creative Writing.