Yael Shinar is a physician and poet. Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Meridian, The Mid-American Review, Third Coast, BOMBlog, The Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Daily, The Drunken Boat, and other publications. Her first manuscript, If God Does Not Sit in the Nostrils of the Starling’s Beak, was a semifinalist for the 2012 Perugia Press Prize and the 2010 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books).