Alexandra Teague is the author of the poetry collections Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019), The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea, 2015), and Mortal Geography (Persea, 2010), and the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse, 2017). She is also coeditor of the anthologies Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon, 2017) and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic and Artistic Collaboration (Provincetown Arts Press, 2022). Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in journals including Boulevard, The Massachusetts Review, River Teeth, and Willow Springs Magazine. She is a professor in, and co-director of, the creative writing program at the University of Idaho.  

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