K. A. Hays’s first book is Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon, 2009), poems from which have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2009, Best New Poets 2007, Southern Review, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She currently holds the Emerging Writer Fellowship at Bucknell’s Stadler Center for Poetry. Poems from her in-progress second book have appeared lately or will soon appear in Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and other venues.