Marni Ludwig is the author of Pinwheel, selected by Jean Valentine for the 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize and Little Box of Cotton and Lightning, chosen by Susan Howe for a 2011 Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Boulevard, FIELD, Gulf Coast, High Chair, JERRY, Poetry Northwest, Western Humanities Review and other journals. She's from Brooklyn, NY.