Liza Katz Duncan is the author of Given (Autumn House Press, 2023), which won the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Award. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, About Place, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has received support for her work from Poets & Writers, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Tucson Festival of Books. Katz Duncan grew up in New Jersey and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She teaches English as a Second Language in New Jersey public schools.