Kara Dorris is the author of two poetry collections: Have Ruin, Will Travel (2019) and When the Body is a Guardrail (2020) from Finishing Line Press. She has also published five chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, Hayden Ferry Review, RHINO, Tinderbox, Puerto del Sol, and Crazyhorse, among others literary journals, as well as the anthology Beauty is a Verb (2011). Her prose has appeared in Waxwing and the anthology The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked (2016). She has made a career of failing, of never being satisfied with her own writing. Loves ekphrastic poetry, slow country mornings rocking in porch swings and driving lonely highways fast, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and listening to The National’s High Violet, swimming laps and taking naps with her pooch. For more information, please visit karadorris.com.