J.L. Conrad is the author of A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Third Coast, Jellyfish, Salamander, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, Phantom Limb, Revolution House, The Laurel Review and Forklift, Ohio, among others. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is working toward her PhD in literary studies.