Lizzy LeRud is an Associate Professor of English at Minot State University, where she teaches American literature, poetry, and first-year writing. Her essays on American poetry have appeared in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Nineteenth-Century Prose, The Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U.S. South, and The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem, and The Poetry Foundation website. LeRud has held fellowships at Emory University, where she was an NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and at Georgia Tech, where she was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.