Donna Stonecipher is a poet, translator, editor, and teacher. She graduated from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in 2001. She completed her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. Her most recent books are The Ruins of Nostalgia (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) and Transaction Histories (University of Iowa Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, The Indiana Review, New American Writing, SAND Journal, and Conjunctions. She lives in Berlin, Germany.