Becca Klaver is the author of two books of poetry—LA Liminal (Kore Press) and Empire Wasted (Bloof Books)—and several chapbooks. Her critical writing appears in College Literature, Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, and elsewhere. As an editor, she cofounded Switchback Books and is currently editing, with Arielle Greenberg, the multimedia poetry anthology Electric Gurlesque. She holds degrees from the University of Southern California (BA), Columbia College Chicago (MFA), and Rutgers University (PhD), and is the 2018-2020 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College in Iowa.