Alexis Lathem is the author of Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change (University of Massachusetts Press) and the poetry collection Alphabet of Bones (Wind Ridge). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Black Earth Institute, the Bread Loaf Writers conference, the Marble House Project, the Vermont Arts Council, the Chelsea Award for Poetry, and elsewhere. Her poems and essays have appeared in About Place Journal, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea Review, Gettysburg Review, The Hopper, Hunger Mountain, Saranac Review, Solstice, Spoon River, Stonecoast, Tikkun, West Branch, and other journals. She received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and lives on Abenaki land in the Winooski River Valley in Vermont.