Caryl Pagel is the author of three books of poetry—Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press), Twice Told (University of Akron Press), and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press)—as well as the essay collection Out of Nowhere into Nothing (FC2). Pagel’s writing has appeared in Brick, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and The Paris Review, among other journals, and she is the recipient of grants and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Ohio Arts Council. Pagel is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She is an associate professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches in the NEOMFA program.