Liz Bowen is a writer and literary scholar living in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Sugarblood (Metatron Press, 2017) and the chapbook Compassion Fountain (Hyacinth Girl Press, forthcoming), and her poetry and essays have been published in Boston Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Dream Pop Press, The Atlas Review, and elsewhere. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation that traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation in the long 20th century. She also teaches undergraduate writing and works on the poetry staff at Anomaly magazine.