Jennifer L. Knox is the author of five books of poems: Crushing It, Days of Shame & Failure, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Drunk by Noon, and A Gringo Like Me. Known for their dark, imaginative humor, her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, five times in The Best American Poetry series, and the 2022 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has taught poetry writing classes at New York University, Hunter College, and 24PearlStreet at the Fine Arts Work Center. Knox earned her MFA from New York University. Her honors include three Milwaukee Poetry Slam champion titles, an American Rescue Plan/NEA grant for her public ecopoetic project, MYCYOWA, and an NEA/Iowa Arts Council Fellowship for her crowdsourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth. Jennifer lives in central Iowa, where is the proprietor of a tiny spice blend company called Saltlickers.