Lucy Silbaugh is a poet from Philadelphia. Before coming to Baltimore, she lived in Russia, Poland, Alaska, and the UK. She received a BA from Yale, where she won the Alfred Stanburrough Cook Prize for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets Prize, and a master’s degree from Oxford, where she won the Dart Poetry Prize. Her poems are forthcoming in Allium and Gulf Coast; her academic papers are published or forthcoming in The Henry James Review and FORUM: A Journal for Modern Language Studies.