Geu­la Geurts is a Dutch-born poet and essay­ist liv­ing in Jerusalem. Her lyric essay, ​“The Begin­nings of Fire,” was pub­lished by Cut­Bank Books (Sum­mer 2021). A Best of the Net nom­i­nee, her work has appeared in Guest­house, Spoon Riv­er, Pleiades, Sala­man­der and Radar, and has been nom­i­nat­ed for the Wis­con­sin Poet­ry Series and the Red Hen Press Ben­jamin Salt­man Award. She works as a lit­er­ary agent at the Deb­o­rah Har­ris Agency.