S. Whitney Holmes is the author of Room Where I Get What I Want (Black Ocean, 2015) and of the chapbook Method of Loci (dancing girl press, 2013). She has been the poetry editor of Black Warrior Review, the executive director for the feminist press Switchback Books, the editor for The Offending Adam, and is now the executive director of editorial operations at The New Yorker. She was born and raised in West Virginia, earned her MFA from the University of Alabama, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Barrelhouse, and others.