Catherine Wagner’s books include Nervous Device (City Lights, 2012) as well as Fence: My New Job (2009), Macular Hole (2004), and Miss America (2001). She is currently writing a column on poetry for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work has been anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (forthcoming), Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (forthcoming), Gurlesque, Poets on Teaching, Best American Erotic Poems, and elsewhere. She is professor of English at Miami University and lives in Oxford, Ohio, with her son.