Catherine Pond (she/her) is the author of Fieldglass (Southern Illinois University Press 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have recently appeared in Indiana Review, The Missouri Review, and AGNI, as well as in anthologies including Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, Best New Poets, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.