Sarah Rose Nordgren’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pleiades, The Literary Review, Quarterly West, Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, and the Best New Poets 2011 anthology. She is the recipient of two poetry fellowshipsfrom the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Louis Untermeyer Tuition Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She grew up in Durham, North Carolina.