Sarah Mangold is the author of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners, selected by Cynthia Hogue for the POL Prize; Giraffes of Devotion, Electrical Theories of Femininity, Household Mechanics, selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize and several chapbooks, most recently The Atom inspired by Swedish artist and researcher Hilma af Klint. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seattle Arts Commission, and Artists Trust.  She was the founder and editor of Bird Dog, a print journal of innovative writing and art, that published longer poems and work by new women writers. Originally from Oklahoma, she now lives and works in Edmonds, Washington.