Tracy Youngblom earned her MFA in poetry from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Previous books include two chapbooks, Driving to Heaven and One Bird a Day, and one full-length collection, Growing Big. Her poems and prose have been published in Shenandoah, Wallace Stevens Journal, Big Muddy, DMQ, Cortland Review, St. Katherine Review, Blue Mountain Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and many other places. She earned a 2017 Pushcart nomination for the poem “Even when it appears, the truth” from Boy. She lives in Minneapolis and teaches English full-time at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Her second full-length collection of poems, Boy, released with CavanKerry Press in 2023.