Eva Heisler is a Maryland-born poet and art critic who currently lives in Germany. Her poems have been widely published in journals including Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, and BOMB. Honors include The Nation’s “Discovery” Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson Award. A Fulbright grant brought her to Iceland in 1997 where she lived for nine years, researching Icelandic art and drafting the poems in Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic (Kore Press, 2013). Recent publications include the book-length poem Drawing Water (Noctuary Press, 2013) and the catalog essay for Katrin Sigurdardottir: Foundation, Iceland’s Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.