Stephanie Lenox is the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). Her most recent book of poetry is The Business, selected by Laura Kasischke for the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing 2015). Her previous publications include a book of poems, Congress of Strange People (Airlie Press 2012), and the award-winning chapbook The Heart That Lies Outside the Body (Slapering Hol Press 2009). Her poetry has received numerous Pushcart nominations and was named an honorable mention in 2013. Her poetry has been anthologized in Best New Poets and featured on Verse Daily and Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud. She has numerous publications in poetry and prose in national journals. She is the founding editor of Blood Orange Review with H.K. Hummel. She earned her MFA in poetry at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She works as an instructional editor with Chemeketa Press, in Salem, Oregon.