Sasha West’s first book, Failure and I Bury the Body, won the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters award, and a Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, and The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her collaborative multi-media exhibitions with artist Hollis Hammonds have been shown at Texas A & M’s Wright Gallery and the Columbus College of Art Design Beeler Gallery, among others. She lives in Austin, TX, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at St. Edward’s University.