Megan Alpert’s first collection The Animal at Your Side won the Airlie Prize and will be published in 2020. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Glass: Poets Resist. She is an Orlando Poetry Prize winner and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, The Guardian, Smithsonian, and Foreign Policy.