Tara Skurtu is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow, and a recipient of a 2013 Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have been translated into Romanian and Hindi, and have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Review, The Dalhousie Review, DMQ Review, B O D Y, the minnesota review, Los Angeles Review, Salamander, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.