Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in POETRY,  American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere.  She has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia, an MPhil in Middle East Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson, and she is an Assistant Professor in Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas.