Andrea Scarpino is co-editor of the anthology Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (MSU Press, 2019) and the author of the poetry collections Once Upon Wing Lake (Four Chambers Press, 2017), What the Willow Said as it Fell (Red Hen Press, 2016) and Once, Then (Red Hen Press, 2014), and the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, and an MFA from The Ohio State University. She has published in numerous journals including The Cincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, and Prairie Schooner, and she served as Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 2015-2017.