Born and raised in Massachusetts, Sarah Manguso lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the Pratt Institute. Her first book, The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002), was a Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year. Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and three editions of the Best American Poetry series. Siste Viator (2006) is her second book.