ELIZABETH BRADFIELD is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and the mixed-genre Toward Antarctica, which pairs her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, West Branch, Orion and many anthologies. She has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship, the Audre Lorde Prize, and was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist locally as well as on expedition ships in the high latitudes and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com