Lau­ren Aliza Green holds an MFA from the Mich­en­er Cen­ter for Writ­ers. Her work has appeared in Con­junc­tions, Amer­i­can Short Fic­tion, Glim­mer Train, and else­where. She is the author of A Great Dark House, win­ner of the Poet­ry Soci­ety of America’s Chap­book Fel­low­ship, and the inau­gur­al recip­i­ent of the Eavan Boland Emerg­ing Poet Award, spon­sored by Poet­ry Ire­land and Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Her writ­ing has received sup­port from the Keny­on Review Work­shop, Bread Loaf, and the Car­son McCullers Center.