Paula Cisewski's fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won the Diode Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Books), Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches, collaborates with fellow artists and activists, and serves on the editorial staff of Conduit.

Cisewski's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies such as ?78, Salt Hill, Bennington Review, the tiny, Tammy, Prompt, Vinyl, Brevity, ?Eleven Eleven, A Handsome Journal, failbetter, Revolver, the BOMBlog, REVOLUTIONesque, Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, and Ping Pong.