Katie Schmid is the author of the poetry collection Nowhere (University of New Mexico Press, 2021) and the poetry chapbook forget me / hit me / let me drink great quantities of clear, evil liquor (Split Lip Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. A former Best New Poet and AWP Intro Journals award winner, she lives and writes in Lincoln, Neb., where she is a lecturer in English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.