Alexandra Teague is the author of the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse, 2017), which is described in a Booklist starred review as a debut novel that “masterfully chronicles the friction, contradictions, and emotional tsunamis of being an intelligent 14-year-old girl,” and two books of poetry—The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea, 2010), winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and 2010 California Book Award. She is also co-editor of the anthology Bullets into Bells:  Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon 2017). The recipient of a 2006-08 Stegner Fellowship and a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Alexandra is an Associate Professor in the MFA program at University of Idaho and an editor for Broadsided Press. www.alexandrateague.com