Megan Grumbling’s debut poetry collection Booker's Point received the 2015 Vassar Miller Prize, and is forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press in 2016. She is librettist of the opera Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, a co-creation with composer Denis Nye for Hinge/Works, which will premiere in May 2016. Awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation Award, her poetry has appeared such places as Poetry, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, and The New York Times.