Shira Leah Haus is a queer, Jewish writer from Michigan. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee and is currently a copyeditor for The Offing. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Copper Nickel, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Barrelhouse, and Wildness, among others, and her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best New Poets. Her work has received support from the McCormack Writing Center Workshops (formerly Tin House Workshops) and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She was a finalist for the PINCH Literary Awards and the ONLY POEMS Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize.