Lauren Haldeman is the author/illustrator of the graphic novels Wild That We're Alive and Team Photograph, and the poetry collections Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday and the chapbook The Eccentricity is Zero. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, The Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast and The Rumpus. A poet, web designer and comic book artist, she has been a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a Vermont Studio Center residency, the Colorado Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.