Nomi Stone is an award-winning poet and anthropologist. Author of two full-length poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo 2019), a finalist for the Julie Suk Award, based on two years of fieldwork she conducted across the Middle East and America. Her first academic monograph (an Atelier Prize Finalist) Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire is forthcoming (University of California Press, 2022).