Adrienne Raphel is the author of What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017), winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and the chapbook But What Will We Do (Seattle Review, 2016), winner of the Seattle Review Chapbook Contest. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the New Yorker online, POETRY, the New Republic, the Paris Review Daily, and Lana Turner Journal. Born in New Jersey and raised in Vermont, Raphel holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from Harvard. She teaches in the Princeton Writing Program and is currently working on a book about crossword puzzles.