About the Author

Lucy Ives was born in New York City and received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. She is the author of ANAMNESIS (Slope Editions, 2009) , NINETIES (Tea Party Republicans Press, 2013; Little A, 2015) , ORANGE ROSES (Ahsahta Press, 2013) , THE WORLDKILLERS (SplitLevel Texts, 2014) , THE HERMIT (Song Cave, 2016) , and the forthcoming IMPOSSIBLE VIEWS OF THE WORLD (Penguin Press, 2017) . For five years an editor of Triple Canopy, Ives continues to live in New York and currently teaches at the Pratt Institute.

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