Lindsay Ahl is the author If a Dolphin, the winner of the Washington prize for poetry, and of the novel Desire, nominated for a Discover New Writer’s Award and a Ruth Lilly Prize. She was awarded a Fiction Fellowship to Bread Loaf for Desire. Her fiction and poetry have been published in BOMB Magazine, The Georgia Review, Another Chicago Magazine, New England Review, Fiction Magazine, Poetry Daily, and several others. She has taught Literature and Creative Writing at the Santa Fe Institute of Art and Design, and at the Institute of American Indian Arts.